Chaffee & Berger's criteria. Explanatory Power - Decision - Mapping offers a good explanation of how a group can map out a decision to increase the likelihood of a positive outcome.

Predictive Power - Decision - Mapping lays out a specific tract that a group can follow to make decisions with positive outcomes.

Parsimony - Decision - Mapping is very simple suggesting that effective leaders and cohesion are determinants of decision outcomes.

Falsifiablity - Decision - Mapping can be tested as it lays out a specific model. Groups will either follow the model to positive outcomes or negative outcomes.

Internal Consistency - Decision - Mapping goes along with some research on leadership, but contradicts other research on defective decision-making. It is brand new and should be tested.

Heuristic Provocativeness - Decision - Mapping offers just a start of how groups can make decisions with positive outcomes. There are many new hypotheses that can be drawn from this theory.

Organizing Power - Decision - Mapping organizes the research well pulling from leadership, decision-making, and cohesion. It does a good job of suggesting a new way to look at all of them together.