1.Introduction -- 2.Research Methodology -- 3.Leadership of Hidden Champions from Vision to Communityship -- 4.Three Bivalent Performance Factors of Hidden Champions Ownership, Organizational Culture and Organizational Governance -- 5.Innovation Behaviour of Hidden Champions -- 6.International Marketing -- 7.In Search of Sustainable Business in Central and Eastern Europe -- 8.Financial Aspects of HCs Business Models -- 9.Hidden Champions of Albania -- 10.Hidden Champions of Belarus -- 11.Hidden Champions of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 12.Hidden Champions of Croatia -- 13.Hidden Champions of Estonia -- 14.Hidden Champions of Hungary -- 15.Hidden Champions of Latvia -- 16.Hidden Champions of the Republic of Macedonia -- 17.Hidden Champions of Romania -- 18.Hidden Champions of Russia -- 19.Hidden Champions of Serbia -- 20.Hidden Champions of Slovakia -- 21.Hidden Champions of Slovenia -- 22.Hidden Champions of Turkey -- 23.Hidden Champions of Ukraine.             .

This book presents hidden champions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Turkey that have been studied as a joint project between CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia. This is an outcome of extensive research undertaken by over 30 researchers and covers 15 countries from Russia to Albania; covering many contexts, political systems, cultures and infrastructures. The reader is provided with a detailed introduction to the concept of hidden champions and describes the cases studied in this project. This book is an invaluable resource providing a culmination of interdisciplinary, cross-study chapters ranging from leadership to performance drivers; from organization to culture and governance; from innovativeness to sustainability and further to the financial aspects of hidden champions business models. These meta level chapters are followed by 15 country-specific chapters which provide an overview of each country’s history, economic indicators and vignettes of the cases involved in this study.