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Introduction
CSR is an important theory in enterprise development, and CSR is also the most
valuable resource for the business. This assignment will discuss Volkswagen’s
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainable
development
status and development prospects, but also determines the business can benefit How
society, and the environment. It also requires companies to focus on the relationship
between business and society, government, and the position and prospects of the
business in the international economic environment (Crowther & Aras, 2008). CSR
also is the business ethics standards for the development of business. But, there are
some companies choose to ignore CSR, such as they deliberately ignore gender
equality, or reduce the production standards of the product on the social environment
protection and responsibility for stakeholders (Husted & Allen, 2007). These can help
companies gain more advantages, save costs and additional publicity, gain more
business opportunities, and customer recognition. And when the corporate trust crisis,
responsibility, which can help enterprises to regain the trust of consumers. At the
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same time, CSR is also a strategic plan for enterprise development, improve the
development and the protection of the environment. At the same time, "sustainable
process of sustainable development can not only get a good reputation and can for
There are many similarities between sustainable development and corporate social
2004). These two principles are also an important part of the process of enterprise
sustainable development and corporate social responsibility that requires short- and
the economic sector is not only the return on investment but also help to improve the
reputation of enterprises and social relations for the long-term business success
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Triple bottom line
In 1994, John Elkington created a triple bottom line, it is the three bottom lines of
Robins, 1994). In other words, it also means people, earth, and profit. People are
mainly social groups in life; earth refers to the environment faced by enterprises;
profits are enterprises are operating industry. This shows that the development of the
enterprise depends not only on the profits of the enterprise but also on the
environment and society (Tripathi, Kaushal & Sharma, 2013). TBL is the traditional
way of measuring people, profits and earth, and measuring the traditional way of
corporate profits (Slaper & Hall, 2011; Longoni, 2014). TBL can help corporate to take
the long-term perspective. And, people will understand the extent of an enterprise in
contributions through the TBL. As well as the performance of the firm on CSR, and the
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Sustainability & CSR of Volkswagen
the world’s leading car manufacturers, but also Europe’s largest car manufacturer.
Volkswagen in addition to the production of cars, but also operating car sales, motor
transport, car rental and so on. As the car manufacturer, Volkswagen's most famous
models are popular cars and light trucks, the most famous car brands are "Beetle",
"polo", "golf", "Audi 100", "Jetta" and so on. Volkswagen’s report of corporate social
strategic goal was to become the world’s most successful, attractive and sustainable
automobile by 2018. Sustainable development that enterprises should not only meet
the stakeholders but also take into account the business and society, the relationship
team responsible for carrying out a large number of arts and cultural projects to
protect the environment project. And Volkswagen and German Nature and
German Red Cross (DRK) to promote social development and strengthen German
Red Cross (DRK) rescue operations. From the Volkswagen's products and the usual
social activities and business activities, everyone on the Volkswagen's evaluation and
However, in 2015, Volkswagen has developed its current CSR issue. Volkswagen as
the largest German car manufacturer "Made in Germany" on behalf of, and in the
exhaust emissions to "green, green" concept. Volkswagen was hit hard on September
18, 2015, when Volkswagen’s auto pollutant emissions were exposed. On September
diesel car of about 11 million. Moreover, Volkswagen was asked to recall nearly
500,000 cars in the United States. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
said Volkswagen may need to pay a fine of about $18 billion (EPA, 2015).
Volkswagen’s share price fell by about 20% for two consecutive days and the market
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value shrank by €25 billion. The incident also reduced the estimates for automobile
manufacturer in Europe and the United States, as some investors feared that the CSR
Motors shares fell 3%, Ford fell 4%. In the company also fired a lot of employees
this CSR event, Volkswagen was hit not only in the economic field and internal
management but also by the community. For example, in the Chinese market,
sales were down 12.9% and 3.1%. And in the Chinese consumer satisfaction market
research, Volkswagen scored only 689, ranked fourth (Power, 2015). After this
incident, we can see the importance of CSR for the sustainable development of
customer satisfaction in the Chinese market, they have increased the intensity of
corporate brand public relations, pay attention to consumers and Media view.
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Financial performance and future impact of the
expectations
The following table shows the Volkswagen’s main financial information from 2012 to
2016, and this table also shows the Volkswagen’s financial change on account of
There are some charts of financial data, its more essay to shows the changes on
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Chart 2: Volkswagen’s earning(PAT) from 2012 to 2016.
According to the data table, Volkswagen’s performance is better, the annual growth
rate is also ideal before 2015. But, in 2015, the data have the big gap, after the VW
CSR event, the financial data has declined. For example, Volkswagen’s gross
margin(chart 1) remained at 18% from 2012 to 2014, but, it fell to 16% in 2015;
Earning (chart 2), in 2012, its earning (€21,881m) is good, but earning has fallen to
€-1,361m in 2015. And in 2015, the share price(chart 3) has reached its lowest level
for nearly five years, the rate of change in the year is relatively slow. After this,
Volkswagen has also made some remedial measures, such as issuing a detailed
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report on the incident on the official website and deciding to evaluate and test vehicle
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Conclusion
This paper analyzes several important corporate concepts, and Volkswagen Group’s
CSR and Sustainability, and the impact of Volkswagen Group’s CSR issues on VW.
financial data over the past five years, as long as VW grasp every opportunity, not to
violate their social responsibility, its development prospects will be getting better and
better, and its position will be higher and higher in the international market.
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Reference
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Longoni, A. (2014). Sustainable operations strategic (1st ed.). London: springer cham
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Slaper, T. & Hall, T. (2011). The Triple Bottom Line: What Is It and How Does It Work?.
Tripathi, D,K., Kaushal, A. & Sharma, V. (2013). Reality of Triple Bottom Line. Global
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from https://www.volkswagen.com/en.html
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