Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the non-academic impact in supply chain management (SCM) research through the application of three distinctive approaches to phenomenological ...methodology in different contexts.
Design/methodology/approach
Evidence-based examples from three case studies using interpretivist, social constructivist and critical realist methodologies are presented. They reflect non-positivist approaches commonly used in phenomenological methodology and adopted in SCM investigative research.
Findings
Different types of non-academic reach and significance from each research methodology are discussed to illustrate the non-academic impact benefits from each case. The three distinctive phenomenological approaches have been shown to contribute to innovative research methodology development on their own philosophical merit and produced novel contributions to SCM research in particular.
Research limitations/implications
The non-academic impact examples have been shown to have wider influence and implication to business, the economy and society at large.
Originality/value
The paper highlights the relevance of phenomenological research methodology for SCM. It also contributes to the development of the SCM subject area and is hoped to encourage further reporting of non-academic impact of supply chain research.
Aim
To explore and understand moral distress from the perspective of and as experienced by critical care nurses in Korea.
Background
The concept of moral distress among critical care nurses must be ...more broadly explored using a qualitative approach.
Design
Giorgi's phenomenological research approach was used.
Methods
A purposive sampling was used to select 14 critical care nurses. In‐depth face‐to‐face interviews were performed in Korea from March 2012–December 2013.
Findings
Five main themes of moral distress emerged: (1) ambivalence towards treatment and care (notably prioritizing work tasks over human dignity, unnecessary medical treatments and the compulsory application of restraints); (2) suffering resulting from a lack of ethical sensitivity; (3) dilemmas resulting from nurses' limited autonomy in treatments; (4) conflicts with physicians; and (5) conflicts with institutional policy.
Conclusion
Staff shortages are aggravated by high staff turnover caused by ethical suffering. The resulting lack of staff can, in turn, give rise to added ethical conflicts as part of a vicious circle, leading to decreased patient satisfaction.
•This article explores construction and transformation of the self by travel writers.•Interviews were conducted with 47 contemporary travel writers.•Findings extend Cohen’s (2010) and Belk’s (2016) ...theories of multiple selves.•New trends in social media have seen travel writers (co)construct an online self.•Writing as a form of catharsis and interactivity influenced the nature of self.
A lacuna of academic research exists that explores contemporary travel writers’ lived experience, particularly how they perceive their sense of self through their work as a forum for self-discovery and self-transformation. Using the essentialist self and socially constructed selves as theoretical frameworks, this research extends the concept of multiple selves to these writers and new forms of online media. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 47 travel writers and data were analysed using an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Findings suggest that many travel writers (co)construct an online self and use their writing to transform themselves. The cathartic process of writing, interaction with their readership and the importance of establishing a social identity online emerged as influences on the nature of self.
Background: Wilderness therapy (WT) has become a popular method of intervention with youth residing in residential facilities (RFs), and an important part of their treatment plan. Thus, the dual ...positioning and role of RF staff members - who both accompany participants on the WT journey and, at the same time, participate in their on-site, daily therapeutic processes - becomes pivotal in therapy programs for this population. Purpose: To examine the meaning of RF staff members’ role in supporting youth from RFs during the WT process. Methodology: The study adopted a qualitative-phenomenological approach, anchored in semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 12 therapeutic-educational workers (6 social workers and 6 youth workers) employed in RFs in Israel. Findings/Conclusions: Three roles emerged from the interviews: the witness, the mediator, and the promoter of the treatment plan. Implications: An ecological-systemic approach is recommended. This approach will provide an opportunity for the RF team members to engage in possible interventions during the journey. It will also allow them to expand the change process which takes place on the WT journey, to the daily treatment plan of the youth within the RF, and among the social and educational systems in which they are involved.
Maintaining adequate blood supplies requires the recruitment of a significant number of regular donors. However, research examining the first-hand experience of blood donation from the perspective of ...regular donors is very limited. This study sought to describe the essential features of this experience from the accounts of 10 regular donors, analysed using Colaizzi’s descriptive phenomenological method. Eight essential themes contributed to the fundamental structure of the experience, emphasising issues of blood donor identity, comfortable routine, feeling good helping others and human connectedness and interaction in the donation process. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
Aim
A discussion of five prevalent tensions in phenomenological interviewing and ways to diminish them. A rigorous interviewer training program for novices is presented, grounded in the philosophy of ...Merleau‐Ponty, and delivered in the context of a transdisciplinary phenomenology research group that provides constructive critique and mentoring.
Design
Discussion Paper.
Data sources
Personal experience as a trainer of novice researchers for over 25 years, and classic and contemporary literature on phenomenological research methodology and interview technique.
Implications for nursing
Phenomenological methodology is one of the most widely used research approaches across the globe in nursing and other human science disciplines. Current nursing literature contains reports in which a phenomenological approach is espoused, but the procedures are not consistent with the tenets of phenomenological philosophy. In particular, problems related to interview technique are evident. Interview training is essential for development of skill in eliciting comprehensive descriptions of the phenomena of concern to nurses, such as chronic pain and spiritual distress. Enhancing nurses’ understanding of these phenomena ultimately impacts the provision of sensitive and compassionate care.
Conclusion
Tensions in phenomenological interviewing can be diminished by trainee grounding in phenomenological philosophy, bracketing and pilot interviews, constructive peer critique, and guidance of research mentors.
Impact
Problems in interview technique indicate the need to provide novice interviewers with rigorous training. A richly evocative interview is critical for powerful, credible, phenomenological research. This paper makes a unique contribution by identifying five tensions confronting the phenomenological interviewer, and ways to diminish them. Principles of the interviewer training program can be replicated in other locales by supervisors of student research in nursing and other human sciences.
摘要
目标
现象学采访中五种常见的紧张关系及其消除方法的讨论。以梅洛‐庞蒂的哲学为基础,在跨学科现象学研究小组的背景下,提供建设性的批评和指导,为初学者提供了严格的采访者培训计划。
设计
讨论性论文。
数据来源
拥有作为新手研究人员培训师25年以上的个人经验,以及借助有关于现象学研究方法和采访技巧的经典和当代文献。
对护理的启示
现象学方法是护理学和其他人文科学学科中应用最广泛的研究方法之一。目前的护理文献中有一些报道支持现象学的方法,但是这些方法并不符合现象学哲学的原则。尤其是采访技巧方面的问题,尤为显著。采访培训对于培养全面描述护士关注的现象(如慢性疼痛和精神痛苦)的技能至关重要。提高护士对这些现象的了解最终影响到提供敏感而富有同情心的护理。
结论
现象学采访中的紧张关系可以通过受训者扎根于现象学哲学、括号和试验性采访、建设性的同行批评和研究导师的指导而得到缓解。
影响
采访技巧方面的问题表明,需要为采访新手提供严格的培训。富有启发性的采访对于强有力、可信、现象学研究至关重要。本文通过识别现象学采访者所面临的五种紧张关系,以及消除紧张的方法,提供具有独特贡献度的观点。采访者培训计划的原则可以供其他地方由护理和其他人文科学领域的学生研究主管照搬使用。
This article explores participants' experience of what it is like to suffer depression, endured for years. Four women and three men, who each reported a minimum of four years' of depression, were ...interviewed and themes were generated using interpretative phenomenological analysis. A first complex theme is depths of emptiness, which encompasses decline of will, disconnection from others, empty future, and numbing of the self. A second theme, episodic despairing engulfment, describes agonizing feelings and thoughts, a sense and conviction that one's world and self are being destroyed, a growing belief that there is no escape, and sometimes ideas of suicide. The third theme, the struggle of unending life problems, describes a perceived timeline of struggle and difficulties, and terrible feelings and emotions. Five of the participants engaged in extreme negative thoughts and narrations about themselves, whereas two focused specifically on loss and threatening present situations. We conclude that chronic depression involves the experience of emptiness, but also a repeated experience of the destruction of self, connection to the world, and deepest hopes. In chronic depression there are negative thoughts and feelings, yet crucially, it also involves alterations in motivation, in particular a process in which aims, cares, and concerns that form important parts of the person's life are repeatedly thwarted or destroyed. In extreme occurrences, the phenomenological self seems to be passing out of existence.
In this article, I present a rebuttal of Max Van Manen’s critique of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Unfortunately, Van Manen’s piece contains a series of misrepresentations of IPA ...and its history. Here, I answer these misrepresentations and present IPA as subscribing, and contributing, to a broad and holistic phenomenology concerned with both prereflective and reflective domains of lived experience. I contend that IPA has much to offer to our understanding of the experience of health and illness, where participants are spontaneously and actively engaged in making sense of the significant and unexpected things that happen to them.
Using a phenomenological approach, we analyse the voices of entrepreneurs living in the peripheral ecosystems of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK), Palermo (Italy) and Perth (Australia). These ecosystems are ...defined by the considerable physical distance between their geographical location and the location of a larger, more established 'core' ecosystem in their nation. The purpose of our paper is to examine how distance from the core is perceived to both enable and constrain entrepreneurship in peripheral contexts. We introduce 'distance from the core' as a significant hitherto unexplored theme to consider when exploring the lived experiences of entrepreneurs in peripheral contexts. Empirically, we present data that affirms and expands extant findings revealing how entrepreneurs rooted in peripheral contexts react to the structural conditions around them. Methodologically, we demonstrate the value of phenomenological research in revealing the subjective ways entrepreneurial agency, structure and distance intersect. We highlight that policymakers must take the voices of entrepreneurs in a peripheral ecosystem into account when designing and implementing enterprise policies that aim to develop entrepreneurship in peripheral contexts.
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