mission et composition du conseil d’administration

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CA, composition et Volkswagen

Le New York Times offre un magnifique article sur les liens entre le scandale Volkswagen et le rôle du conseil d’administration : « Problems at Volkswagen Start in the Boardroom » (24 septembre 2015).


Morceaux choisis :

One measure of Mr. Piëch’s influence: In 2012, shareholders elected his fourth wife, Ursula, a former kindergarten teacher who had been the Piëch family’s governess before her marriage to Ferdinand, to the company’s supervisory board.

Although many shareholders protested her lack of qualifications and independence, they have little or no influence. Porsche and Piëch family members own over half the voting shares and vote them as a bloc under a family agreement. Labor representatives hold three of the five seats on the powerful executive committee, and half the board seats are held by union officials and labor.

Of the remaining seats, two are appointed by the government of Lower Saxony, the northwestern German state that owns 20 percent of the voting shares. Two are representatives of Qatar Holding, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, which owns 17 percent of Volkswagen’s voting shares. Members of the Piëch and Porsche families hold three more seats, and a management representative holds another

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Ivan Tchotourian