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While high-stakes mobile assessment is increasing, researchers have done little to adapt traditional assessments to this new medium. The present study developed and tested a new response method for personality assessment using a mobile-first gamification design paradigm.

Participants used smartphones to “swipe” right or left to indicate agreement or disagreement with Goldberg's (1992) Big Five adjective indicators. These scores were correlated with responses to a Likert-type measure and participants provided reactions to both measures.

Each of the swipe-based measures was found to be a reliable and valid predictor of the corresponding dimensions measured using the Likert-type scale. Reactions to the swipe measure were mixed when compared to a traditional Likert-type measure. Response latencies of swipes were used as an indicator of self-schema beliefs. Transformed latency scores contributed incremental variance to the prediction of Likert responses beyond the dichotomous responses alone for some personality dimensions.

Convergent validity between the two measures was likely attenuated due to differences in scales, response methods, devices, connection speeds, and social desirability effects indicating that the present results may constitute a lower-bound estimate of convergent validity between the two measurement styles.

Designing assessments for mobile administration requires balancing trade-offs in speed, ease of use, and number of items relative to the reliability and validity of the measures.

Mobile-first designs such as swipe-based responses show potential to enhance future mobile assessment practices with further development.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the main challenges related to the use of performance measures in public organisations in order to identify the factors affecting the adoption and implementation of performance measurement systems. The empirical analysis is focused on the Italian Institutions.

This paper is based on a two‐stage research process. First a systematic literature review has been carried out with the aim of identifying the factors enabling and hampering the adoption of performance measures in public organisations. Second on the basis of the results of the desk analysis a survey‐based investigation has been implemented involving Italian public institutions.

The paper provides a twofold contribution. It analyses the factors affecting the adoption and implementation of performance measures in public organisations. On the other hand it presents the descriptive statistical results of the survey highlighting the position of Italian institutions with regard to the use of performance measures. This allows an assessment of the cultural, political and rational factors influencing the deployment of measures in Italian institutions.

The conceptual analysis has a general validity, whilst the empirical investigation is focused on the Italian context. The framework proposed in this paper allows the identification of the factors affecting the exploitation of performance measures in public organisations. It can be applied in any public organisational context. The empirical evidence is context‐specific and related, in particular, to the Italian local governments. Some main managerial implications are addressed that can support managers to apply performance measurement systems in public organisations.

The paper sheds light on a fundamental issue related to the implementation of performance measurement systems in public organisations. It addresses what are the factors that matter in order to make sure that performance measures are effectively employed to run everyday working activities. Indeed in many public organisations PMSs are something nice to have, but with little practical application.

This paper seeks to analyse the characteristics of performance measurement and management systems in public organizations and to highlight the main factors driving performance in this sector.

A literature review is carried out in order to outline the main issues related to the adoption and implementation of performance measurement and management systems in public organizations.

The paper provides better information on the performance measurement and management systems in public organizations, by analyzing the performance dimensions, the use of performance measures and the factors influencing the implementation of the performance management process.

The paper presents a model for driving the implementation of a performance measurement system within public organizations and identifies the main factors influencing this process. The paper is conceptual in its nature and will be further developed through an empirical research investigating the role played by the identified factors.

The paper identifies the factors driving the performance management process in public organizations.

Advance the state-of-the-art on how frugal innovation links to sustainability outcomes and based on content analysis of empirical publications in the field of frugal innovation, analyzing when and how FI is connected with social, environmental and economic outcomes.

Quantitative content analysis on empirical papers published on frugal innovation, using data visualization techniques to disclose relationships among the constructs adopted. Materials were collected following a step-wise methodology. In total, 130 articles were identified, read in depth and coded according to five main categories: context; development; implementation, adoption, diffusion; characteristics; and impacts.

The potential of frugal innovation to drive sustainability outcomes is influenced by the type of actors developing the innovation, regarding their organizational form (large firms, small firms, non-firm actors), their geographical origin (foreign or local) or motivations (mostly profit-motivated or socially-oriented). Collaboration plays a key role along the various stages of the frugal innovation cycle and is thus relevant for its potential to drive sustainability outcomes. The results reaffirm the need for greater attention to where and when sustainability-enhancing outcomes of frugal innovation are more likely to occur.

This study provides a qualitative study based on content analysis of empirical studies to explore the associations between frugal innovations and improved economic, environmental and social sustainability outcomes. The key novelty of this study lies in the systematic coding of each paper regarding the features of the innovation, the innovators, and the outcomes achieved. This allows taking stock of the evidence emerging in such a scattered literature, quantifying the extent to which insights take place in the empirical literature, looking for correlations, and highlight research gaps to understand to what extent frugal innovation can contribute to sustainable development.