Turf Wars between Professions – Phenomenological Analysis of participant responses to the People e-Delhi Study

Elements here include (roughly categorised):

• exactly which professions are involved in turf wars? Can we accurately represent this so that we don’t imply wars that don’t exist? Records managers & archivists; records managers and IT; information managers & knowledge managers; IT and information systems; archivists and IT; etc.
• history of the professions (where they came from); nature of people in each profession; perceptions of their purpose/role; beliefs; knowledge and skills; qualifications
• perceptions of the status/value of one’s profession; power struggles (especially concern of archivists & records managers being valued less/having less power than IT people); sense of vulnerability, lack of confidence vs. great confidence
• professionals’ own views/perceptions vs. impact of views/perceptions of others

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Phenomenological Analysis is applied to participant responses; this method provides subjective insights into a topic (phenomenon) through the researcher’s exploring it in depth using their experience and imagination. http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/qualmethone.html