Hidden Champions Case Compendium: Leading Global Markets Case Studies and Text [Paperback]

This textbook provides an in-depth portfolio of case studies of globally operating and market leading medium-sized companies, mostly based in Germany. Students in the field of strategic management, family business management, information technology, and engineering may comprehensively explore the success factors of these hidden champions. Assignments and discussion sections help to dive deeper into the topics of innovation, internationalization, and leadership. Practitioners may gain valuable insights into growth trajectories and strategic decisions for achieving and sustaining market leadership. All case studies have been developed in direct cooperation with the companies and tested in teaching.

Part 1: Spearheading Innovation.- Hidden Champions: Strategic Logic of Innovation.- Customer-Centric Innovation Marketing for IntelliSens by Huf H?lsbeck & F?rst.- Creating a High Performance Culture for Innovation at Autoneum.- The Next Level of Value Generation: Smart Services for Industry 4.0 by ifm electronics.- Speed as Competitive Advantage: CoMaTec enters the New Mobility Market.- Part 2: Leveraging Global Growth.- Suddenly Hidden Champion? A Study of Internationalization Patterns.- Determinants of Hidden Champions: Evidence from Germany.- Management by Opportunity as a Guideline for International Expansion at Dolezych.- Schalker Eisenh?tte: Keep your business on track in times of transformation.- Entrepreneurial Growth: Opportunity Driven Strategy Development at Elmos.- Part 3: Orchestrating Resources for Sustainability.- The World is (not) Enough: Future Through Digitization at GEA.- Orchestrating internal and external drivers for global growth at GEA Farm Technologies.- Sustainable Transformation at Theben  100 years of pioneering in building automation.- Handling Growth as a Complexity Driver at Faymonville.- Roots to Grow: How Kahmann & Ellerbrock benefits from Local Embeddedness with Hidden Champions.- Stepping into the spotllc%