In what may be one of the most alarming corporate revelations in recent European business history, an anonymous survey of Volkswagen’s board members and supervisory board has reportedly revealed that the company’s own leadership considers the automaker’s existence to be under threat.
According to Der Spiegel, citing manager magazin, the survey — designed to take the pulse of VW’s top decision-makers — found deep pessimism about the future and a self-diagnosis of internal disunity. For a company that is not just Germany’s largest automaker but a pillar of European industrial identity, the admission is striking.
