1 PHASE ONE VERBALLY AGREED WERE PRESENTED WITH THE IN THE FIRST PHA...

4.1 Phase one

verbally agreed were presented with the

In the first phase the authors developed a

questionnaire package and for ease of

scenario case which involved a business

return, an internal mail envelope. Fifteen

investment opportunity. Next, three

questionnaires were distributed, 5 binary,

questions that related to the case were

5 open-ended and 5 directed. Within one

generated. The questions were intended

week of distribution, 13 were returned

to elicit from respondents knowledge on

(86% response rate), of which 4 were

issues that were implicit in the case; for

binary, 5 open-ended and 4 directed. The

example, ‘are there any risks associated

last returned open-ended questionnaire

with the investment?’ Each question was

was not used in analysis, therefore

worded in a manner that would allow for

allocating an equal number of responses

the three different response structures to

for each question response structure.

be created – binary, open-ended and

directed. For instance, to restrict the