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Reconnecting governance configuration variables to enterprises contingency factors for optimizing productivity at the start-up level

Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA) (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada) (PRISM-Pole SEE, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France) (ExpertActions ExiGlobal Capital Group Co, Glasgow, UK)

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

ISSN: 1741-0398

Article publication date: 8 October 2020

Issue publication date: 11 November 2021

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Abstract

Purpose

The article broaches the important topic of the relationships between governance operationalizations and productivity at the start-up level. It proposes a new approach to reconnect the contingency factors to the optimization of productivity. This helps us to identify the changing characteristics that influence the determinants of decisions, actions and management of the technological projects of the mainly innovative enterprises.

Design/methodology/approach

The study uses techniques that effectively solve unobserved endogeneity and heterogeneity problems in enterprises: an empirical–structural design. With this method, this study enables rich empirical conceptualization and helps with extending theory. However, there is a need to further the research by taking into account the system analysis and the complexity of the research object: one of the options might be to explore a possible follow-up of the research through drawing on ethnostatistics and qualimetrics.

Findings

The analysis reveals that the phenomenon of technological project productivity in operational governance context is thus manifested by the coexistence of the applied governance configuration variables, the contingency factors operationalization, the optimizing productivity mechanisms and this with the secular innovation and stagnation and stagnation. Ceteris paribus, the governance operationalizations have an important role in the productivity of technological projects of the innovative enterprises.

Originality/value

This research is the first to mobilize as major determinants of the operationalization of governance, the oversight of the capital, the dividend strategy and the system control, the managerial follow-up, the detection of opportunistic behaviours and the application of governing incentives (among others) as governance configuration variables in order to highlight their interactions with productivity in the innovative firm technological projects. For this reason alone, the paper will be referenced by other authors in the future.

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Acknowledgements

The author thanks Northwestern University, ExpertActions ExiGlobal Capital Group and the Chair of Institutional Governance and Strategic Leadership Research for funding this research. Compliance with ethical standards: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Expression of Concern: The publisher of the Journal of Enterprise Information Management is issuing an Expression of Concern for the following article by Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire (2020) ‘Reconnecting governance configuration variables to enterprises contingency factors for optimizing productivity at the start-up level’ published in the Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 1630-1648, https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-12-2019-0410, to inform readers that concerns have been raised regarding the authorship of this paper. An investigation is ongoing and is currently unresolved. Despite numerous attempts to contact the author, the journal has yet to receive sufficient information. Further information will be provided by the Journal of Enterprise Information Management as it becomes available.

Citation

Amedzro St-Hilaire, W. (2021), "Reconnecting governance configuration variables to enterprises contingency factors for optimizing productivity at the start-up level", Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 34 No. 6, pp. 1630-1648. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-12-2019-0410

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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