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

The publisher of the Journal of Enterprise Information Management wishes to retract the article 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, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-12-2019-0410. This article previously featured an expression of concern due to unaddressed authorship concerns; subsequent investigation and new information has now identified additional issues. Specifically, that the author Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire was not authorised to present himself as affiliated with the University of Ottawa or Northwestern University as he has never been affiliated with those institutions or received funding from Northwestern University for this research. As a result, the findings of the article cannot be relied upon. This retraction supersedes the prior expression of concern. The decision to retract has been informed by COPE’s guidelines on retractions and Emerald’s publishing ethics. Emerald's authorship policy guidelines make it clear that authorship is a fundamental aspect of transparency in the publication process and ensures accountability and responsibility for reported research. This issue has been corrected in the published version and the article's metadata. The publisher of the journal sincerely apologizes to the readers.