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Hidden Champions: Strategic Logic of Innovation
Hidden champions are characterized in their ambitious pursuit of market leadership by a strategy of focus and depth, continuous internationalization...
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Determinants of Hidden Champions: Evidence from Germany
This chapter explores the factors that affect the likelihood of German companies to be a hidden champion. Based on an econometric estimation model we...
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Hidden Champions Case Compendium Leading Global Markets – Case Studies and Texts
This textbook provides an in-depth portfolio of case studies of globally operating and market leading medium-sized companies, mostly based in...
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Hidden Champions Worldwide
While Hidden Champions can be found all over the world the German-speaking countries have by far the highest number of Hidden Champions per one...
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German Hidden Champions
Germany has 46% of all Hidden Champions worldwide. The average revenue of the German Hidden Champions is €467 million. Their average age is 71 years,...
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Hidden champions: a review of the literature & future research avenues
Substantial efforts have contributed to overcome the scarcity of research on hidden champions. Nevertheless, literature has yet missed to compile a...
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Are Hidden Champions Humanistic?—A Reflection on Humanistic Leadership in Germany
So-called “Hidden Champions”—little-known German companies that occupy global leadership positions in specific B2B markets—have received significant...
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Austrian and Swiss Hidden Champions
Austria and Switzerland have 171 Hidden Champions each. The Austrian companies are somewhat smaller and the Swiss companies are significantly larger...
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Roots to Grow: How Kahmann & Ellerbrock Benefits from Local Embeddedness with Hidden Champions
The case study on the family-run company Kahmann & Ellerbrock opens up a whole new perspective on thinking about hidden champions. Not being a hidden...
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Hidden Champions: The Definition
Hidden Champions occupy one of the top-three ranks in the world market or are the no. 1 on their continent. Their turnover is less than €5 billion...
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Why Are There Hidden Champions?
The economy consists not only of large markets but of thousands of niche markets. These are the home of the Hidden Champions. Division of labor,...
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Reception of the Hidden Champions Concept
The Hidden Champions concept has been received and accepted worldwide. This includes policymakers, whose understanding of the importance of a strong...
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The Future of the Hidden Champions
My view on the future of the Hidden Champions is more nuanced than in my earlier publications. Some Hidden Champions operate in sunset industries...
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Hidden Champions and Export Success
Companies, not the state, determine a country’s export success. In most countries, this export success depends on the number of large corporations....
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A Brief History of the Hidden Champions
“Why are German companies so successful at exporting?” This question asked in 1987 by Harvard professor Ted Levitt instigated my Hidden Champions...
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Hidden Champions in the Chinese Century Ascent and Transformation
“Hidden Champions” are medium-sized, unknown companies with annual revenues under $5 billion that have quietly, under the radar, become world market...
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Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms
AbstractHidden champions are market leaders in niche markets and are an important part of the German Mittelstand. Although the hidden champion...
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Why Are There So Many Hidden Champions in Germany?
The fact that Germany has so many Hidden Champions is not due to one cause but has many historical roots. For a long time Germany consisted of many...
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Leading Global Champions Das CEO-Buch
Dieses Buch zeigt die Entwicklung von Hidden Champions zu Global Champions in Deutschland und Europa und der daraus entstehenden Herausforderungen,...