Hidden Champion in the Connected World
Date: Oct.22-Oct.23, 2018
Venue: Room 139, Mon Man Wai Building, Zijingang Campus
Symposium Chairs | |
Prof. Xiaobo Wu National Institute for Innovation Management (NIIM), Zhejiang University,China | Prof. Danica Purg International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies (CEEMAN), Slovenia |
Looking at the list of the most admired companies in the world published annually by Fortune magazine, we may conclude that an excellent company must be well-known corporate giants. Similarly, the majority of literature has focused on these larger companies, since much of whose information was publicly available and their histories were relatively easy to etch out. But as economists had long recognized, the engine of economic growth for many nations were the flourishing strata of small and medium-sized companies. What are the lessons here? This opened the research in the field of hidden champion. Hidden champions, described by Hermann Simon as companies whose market dominance belies their low profiles, are considered as an important issue in both business and academic fields in recent years.Despite the international interest in this topic, empirical research is astonishingly scarce –even in Germany. As a consequence, to the best of our knowledge, the factors that induce acompany to be a hidden champion and how these firms develop in the connected world have not been empirically validated to date. We seek to showcase work that informs these issues, and topics of interest include but are not limited to the following issues:
Leadership of hidden champions
Craftmanship and innovation
Hidden champions in global market
Hidden champions in the era of Internet
International marketing of hidden champions
Competitiveness of hidden champions
From hidden champions to corporate giants
Case study of hidden champions
Hidden champions in family business