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3.2.2 Measurement of Decision Styles

Elicitation of decision styles information is done using a standard questionnaire that

consists of 20 multiresponse questions (Rowe and Boulgarides, 1992). For each ques-

tion 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 statements: most preferred

(8 points), second most preferred (4 points), third most preferred (2 points), and least

preferred (1 point). is implies that for each question, 15 points have to be distrib-

uted across the four response statements. erefore, the overall maximum number of

points is 300; the overall maximum possible number of points for each de ...