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.

Provides real case studies of mid-sized world-market leaders for long-term success of companies Serves as inspiration and food for thought for managers in medium-sized companies Students can gain completely new perspectives by studying the hidden champions

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Prof. Dr. Jan-Philipp Büchler is Professor of Corporate Management and Global Business Management and serves as Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Applied Studies & Education in Management (CASEM) at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He supports medium-sized companies and hidden champions in the areas of growth, internationalization, and innovation.

Prof. Dr. Christina Hoon holds the endowed chair of family business management at Bielefeld University and is on the board of the Institute for Family Business Ostwestfalen-Lippe (iFUn). She supports family businesses in the areas of management, succession, and governance.

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Part 1: Spearheading Innovation.- Hidden Champions: Strategic Logic of Innovation.- Customer-Centric Innovation Marketing for IntelliSens by Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst.- 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 Eisenhütte: 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 spotlight: Active sourcing strategy of Harting Technologies.- Case Study Types.- Case Study Profiles.