Literature Review on Ethical Consumerism in the Automobile Industry

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LITERATURE REVIEW
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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction...........................................................................................................................2
1.1 Purpose of the literature review.............................................................................................2
1.2. Research question.................................................................................................................2
1.3 Efficacy of the literature review............................................................................................2
2.0 Methods.....................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Literature finding approach...................................................................................................3
2.2 Criteria of the paper...............................................................................................................3
3.0 Body...........................................................................................................................................4
3.1 Key themes............................................................................................................................4
3.2 Critical analysis.....................................................................................................................4
3.3 Key theories...........................................................................................................................8
4.0 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Summary of the main themes................................................................................................8
4.2 Research gap..........................................................................................................................9
5.0 Reference.................................................................................................................................10

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1.0 Introduction
1.1 Purpose of the literature review
Ethical consumerism is considered to be a moral standpoint that compels the consumer to
buy products or goods on the basis of moral purchasing. In other words, it can be argued that
the role of the ethical consumerism is associated with the customer behaviour to choose
products which do not have an adverse impact on the society or environment. With the
increasing trend in the environmental deterioration, it becomes an important responsibility
for the consumers to buy products carefully. It is more like casting vote for the products that
have positive impact in the environment. In this regard, the purpose of this report is to deliver
an in-depth analysis on the ethical consumerism in automobile industry. The reason behind
choosing the automobile industry as the case study is that the automobile industry is directly
responsible to affect the environment by high amount of carbon emission. In this regard, the
topic of this research is resembled with the influence of ethical consumerism on automobile
industry.
1.2. Research question
Therefore, the research question is Does the practice of ethical consumerism leave any
positive impact on the business in automobile industry?
1.3 Efficacy of the literature review
The literature review intends to focus on the research question and tries to find out the
positive impact of ethical consumerism on automobile industry. In this regard, at first the
literature review tries to find out the link between ethical consumerism and business. Based

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on that understanding the significance of the ethical consumerism on effective business
practice of the automobile industry.
2.0 Methods
2.1 Literature finding approach
Choosing of relevant literatures for constructing an effective literature review is
considered to be one of the major aspect for this research. Therefore, this literature review tries
to choose the articles and journals carefully. In this context, the researcher opts for the literature
search strategy that segregated the process into four distinct stages in terms of the find out the
key words. For this literature review, key words like ethical consumerism, automobile industry
and environmental impact are referred as the important key words. After that choosing the online
and offline literature mode is crucial. This literature review relies on the online database to
identify the accurate and relevant journal articles. The next step is associated with collecting the
literature as per the needs. Therefore, this literature review also puts emphasis on the content of
the journal articles and measure the content of those articles. Finally the authenticity of the
literatures are also taking into considerations to bring a justifiable background of the topic.
2.2 Criteria of the paper
Based on this the criteria of the literature review is based on the peer reviewed journals
and articles. Besides this, the content of the literatures are also scrutinised in order to solidify the
arguments in the discussion. The purpose of choosing the peer reviewed articles is due to the
authenticity of the research outcome and the used data. Moreover, the researcher also puts
emphasis on the publication year of those articles and intends to use articles not older that the