A review of literature on the use of clickers in the business and management discipline

•Clicker use in the classroom is slowly gaining popularity in the academic environment.•Existing clicker research has mainly been undertaken in the natural sciences area.•Acceptance and use of clickers in management literature is yet to be considered.•We have reviewed several issues including engagement, performance, and learning.

Classroom response systems (clickers), in their various forms, are widely used across disciplines, demonstrating effectiveness across a range of different educational settings. However, only a few literature reviews on this technology have been undertaken in general, and no review has yet been performed on this topic in the business and management context. Realising the existing research gap, this article reviews 33 clicker-related studies from the business and management discipline that are largely focused on student perceptions and outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical and balanced review of articles from the business and management discipline on various themes such as learner's engagement, performance, learning, participation, satisfaction, feedback, attendance, enjoyability, motivation, and interactivity, to name a few. The review also provides a brief account of lessons learned from the literature published in other disciplines and recommendations provided by studies from the business and management discipline.