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Hidden champions of the twenty-first century : success strategies of unknown world market leaders
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Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey
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Hidden Champions of Belarus
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Hidden Champions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Hidden Champions of Croatia
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Hidden Champions of Estonia
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Hidden Champions of Hungary
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Hidden Champions of Latvia
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Hidden Champions of the Republic of Macedonia
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Hidden Champions from Romania
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Hidden Champions of Russia
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Hidden Champions of Serbia
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Hidden Champions of Slovakia
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Hidden Champions of Slovenia
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Hidden Champions of Turkey
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Hidden Champions of Ukraine
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Three Bivalent Performance Factors of Hidden Champions: Ownership, Organizational Culture and Organizational Governance
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Innovation Behaviour of Hidden Champions
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The Dual Growth‐Value Transfer Nexus: Sustaining Corporate Performance Among Hidden Champions to Achieve Sustainable Growth
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Exploring the barriers and drivers of ESG in the German Mittelstand : A qualitative analysis of mechanical and plant engineering companies
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What types of business environment fosters the emergence of more specialized and sophisticated “little giant” enterprises?—An empirical study based on the TOE framework and configuration adaptation theory
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How to achieve the high‐quality development of SRDI enterprises? Evidence from machine learning
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Can product specialization improve the internationalization level of enterprises? Empirical evidence from “SRDI” enterprises
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Defining Sustainable Growth Strategies
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Epilogue: Setting Out Pathways for Research, Advancing the Research Agenda and Methodological Considerations from a European Perspective
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Toward a Research Instrument for Firm Behaviour in the Dichotomy Dynamic Versus Myopic National Innovation Systems: Reflections from a Systems Perspective
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Hidden Champions Revised: From Hidden Champions to Ocular Champions: A New Conceptual Framework for Innovation, Digitalization and Sustainability
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Hidden Champions of Morocco
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Employees Are the Champions: Human Resource Management in Hidden Champion Companies
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Sustainability Principles of Hidden Champions: “How Hidden Champions Build Their Success on the Application of Sustainability Principles”
inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08480-4_6openalex-snapshot
Navigating AI Adoption: A Methodology for German SMEs
inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-17538-0_8openalex-snapshot
Family Climate: Driving Organizational Resilience of Hidden Champions
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International niche market leaders as drivers of industrial districts: a value chain perspective
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Laggards go beyond catching up to become niche champions: a longitudinal case study in China
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The impact of long-term orientation on the resilience of niche leaders
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Discrepancy is not always evil: The effect of inconsistency between strategic cognition and action on SADI firms’ performance in China
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Unpacking the specialization paradox: the impact of founder’s industry experience on becoming a niche leader
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Niche champions under environmental distress: an organizational resilience perspective
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The dynamic evolution and paradox management of niche leaders: T-Model as an effective strategic option
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A taxonomy of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: firm types and knowledge sources
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Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms
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In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand
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Hidden champions and knowledge spillovers: innovation-enhancing agglomeration effects and niche technology specificity
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A bibliometric assessment of hidden champions research: Mapping an evolving field
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Editorial to the special issue “Structured Literature Reviews in Entrepreneurship Research-Taking Stock and Setting the Agenda”
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Improving disaster management in international tourism
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Preparing for the future of work: a novel data-driven approach for the identification of future skills
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Hidden Champions Between Past and Present: Insights from Bibliometric Analysis
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Pathways of SME globalization: unveiling the role of niche market leadership and intelligent cloud-based accounting information system
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Does data assetisation improve corporate liquidity and corporate growth? Evidence from “hidden champion” SMEs in China
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The determinants of hidden champion enterprises: Evidence from China
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The impact of digital leadership on hidden champions’ competitive advantage: A moderated mediation model of ambidextrous innovation and value co-creation
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Family firm internationalization and top management team collaboration: Roles, emotional attachment, and risk perceptions
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How certification programs boost SME productivity: Evidence from China’s targeted industrial policy
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Spatial distribution and business environment of specialized and sophisticated Little Giant enterprises in Zhejiang Province
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Business network strategies and performance of specialized, advanced, differentiated, and innovative (SADI) Chinese companies
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Digital pioneers in the periphery? Toward a typology of rural Hidden Champions in times of digitalization
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In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand
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The impact and mechanism of the ‘Specialized and New’ policy on enterprise digital transformation – evidence from China
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Accredited hidden champion support and corporate ESG performance: evidence from China
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A ‘Hidden Champion’ in Hong Kong’s banking sector: the case of Hang Seng Bank
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I am a champion: does China’s hidden champion policy increase firms’ innovation competence?
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Improving supply chain efficiency in hidden champions: a TOE framework approach with evidence from China
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Between Involvement and Profit: Value (Un-)Captured by a Born-Social Start-Up
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Data assetization and corporate credit financing: evidence from hidden champion SMEs in China
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Does specialization facilitate internationalization? Evidence from Chinese niche leaders
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Leveraging (in)formal early-mover and diligent-follower advantage mechanisms to attain international niche market leadership: insights from Basque “hidden champions”
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The mediating role of supply chain integration to supply chain resilience – an empirical study on SRDI SMEs in new energy vehicle supply chains
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Technological innovations of hidden champions: Evidence from patent data
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University knowledge spillovers and innovation of hidden champions: evidence from Italy
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20 years of firm growth literature in the international small business journal: Taking stock, looking ahead
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How to Become a Hidden Champion Without Product Differentiation or Proprietary Production Technology
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Data assetization and capital market information efficiency: evidence from Hidden Champion SMEs in China
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Research on the Theory of Inclusive Innovation Driving the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises towards Specialized, Refined, Distinctive and Innovative—Based on the Perspective of Enterprise Digital Transformation
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Davids and Goliaths: Hidden Champions in an Age of Industrial Policy
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Hidden champions as a determinant of regional development: An analysis of german districts
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Family firms, hidden champions and regional development
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Relocation as a Driver of Innovative Activity: A Global Study of Unicorn Founders’ Migration
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Paradoxes of popularity: Between Hidden Champions and invisible Everyday Entrepreneurship
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Opening the Black Box of Innovation: How Front-End Processes Shape Execution and Performance in Hidden Champions across Germany and Japan
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Performance measurement in a “hidden champion” company: An empirical study
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Hidden champions: Through a retrospective systematic literature review
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Linking High-Level Capabilities to Managerial Practices in Dynamic Capability Processes: A Longitudinal Case Study
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The Rise of Specialized and Innovative Little Giant Enterprises under China’s ‘Dual Circulation’ Development Pattern: An Analysis of Spatial Patterns and Determinants
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Configurational Pathways to Breakthrough Innovation in the Digital Age: Evidence from Niche Leaders
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Business Ecosystem Embeddedness and SRDI SME Growth: The Roles of Organizational Resilience and Digital Leadership
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In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand
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