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face of the individual,” with some having “greater acceptance of tacit knowledge
management.” To paraphrase Martinsons and Davison (2007), for such non-
Western societies, KM systems (KMSs) that support interpersonal communica-
tions and encourage tacit knowledge sharing and individual discretion would be
more helpful than KMSs that mainly involve codied knowledge.
Measurement of Decision Styles
Elicitation of decision styles information is done using the standard questionnaire that
consists of 20 multiresponse questions (Rowe 1981). For each question, there is a set of
four response statements, one for each of the four decision styles, and the respondent
is required to rank the set of response ...