the meeting of worldwide accepted institutional environmental and social standards also inside the own company.
Therefore the Volkswagen AG admits to the mission statement of the business initiative ‘‘econsense’’ and to
the Charta for a sustainable development by the International Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, Volkswagen supports the Global Compact [59] and is oriented towards the OECD-guidelines for multinational enterprises [60]. Additionally, almost all production sites around the world are certified according to ISO 14001 or EMAS. Regarding the social dimension, since 2002 the global responsibility of the Volkswagen
AG has been based on a code of conduct [61], called the ‘‘Declaration of social rights and industrial relationships
at Volkswagen’’ [62]. This rests upon the SA 8000 standard.