IEDC and CEEMAN hosted Hidden Champions research meeting

Following the open call for cooperation in February, IEDC-Bled School of Management and CEEMAN have gathered a diverse group of research partners from numerous universities and other institutions from 22 countries to research the Hidden Champions phenomenon in their nations’ economies. On 21 and 22 May 2018, our partners from 11 countries visited us in Bled to take part in the first research meeting and thus marked the successful start of the second discussion on this fascinating topic: Hidden Champions in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe.

Hidden Champions are highly successful, but not very well-known innovative small and medium-sized companies. They are among the global top-three in terms of market share in their respective niche or the leader on their continent. Furthermore, the survival rate of Hidden Champions is often significantly higher than the average in their respective sector. Hidden Champions also boast the tendency to be very competitive in their markets and exhibit a consistent growth trajectory as well as an above-average innovation rate. It is because of these fascinating and compelling traits that academia strives to determine why these businesses in particular are thriving.

To read more about the research meeting, please visit CEEMAN website or contact IEDC’s Vice Dean for Research, Dr. Alenka Braček Lalić at alenka.bracek.lalic@ceeman.org for questions about the research project in general.