Strategic Frameworks That Actually Work

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1. 29 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Corrected 3 citation errors: McGahan's institutional affiliation in the real 1997 McGahan/Porter study was wrong (claimed University of Toronto, real affiliation was Harvard Business School at the time) and the specific dataset size (7,003 business units, 628 industries) could not be verified against the real Compustat-based sample; a fabricated Markides study design claiming a specific '15-year study, 30 successful vs 30 failed disruptors' sample that does not appear in his real book All the Right Moves; and a reversed causal sequence for the 7-S framework, which the article credited to the In Search of Excellence research when the framework actually predates that book (developed by Peters, Waterman, Richard Pascale, and Anthony Athos around 1978-1980) and was used as an organizing lens for the findings rather than generated by them.

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   Article misattributed an author's institutional affiliation, added unverifiable dataset specifics to a real study, invented a specific study design for a real book, and reversed the documented origin sequence of a well-known framework.

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   Corrected McGahan's affiliation and removed the unverifiable dataset figures while preserving the real, confirmed variance percentages; softened the fabricated Markides study design to an accurate general description; corrected the 7-S framework's origin story and credited its actual co-originators.

   Why: The real variance percentages (32pct firm-specific, 19pct industry, 4pct corporate parent) and the Schmalensee 1985 citation both verified as fully accurate - this article's issues were more about attribution and framing errors than fabricated statistics.

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1. Correction 29 July 2026

   Emir Baycan: Corrected 3 citation errors: McGahan's institutional affiliation in the real 1997 McGahan/Porter study was wrong (claimed University of Toronto, real affiliation was Harvard Business School at the time) and the specific dataset size (7,003 business units, 628 industries) could not be verified against the real Compustat-based sample; a fabricated Markides study design claiming a specific '15-year study, 30 successful vs 30 failed disruptors' sample that does not appear in his real book All the Right Moves; and a reversed causal sequence for the 7-S framework, which the article credited to the In Search of Excellence research when the framework actually predates that book (developed by Peters, Waterman, Richard Pascale, and Anthony Athos around 1978-1980) and was used as an organizing lens for the findings rather than generated by them.

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