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Accessed on February 16, 2021. This number varies from day to day.
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Initiators of the “Verband Deutscher Hidden Champions e.V”. (VDHC), as the association is called in German, are Dieter Boening, Dieter Beste and Georg Türk.
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http://sustainable-hidden-champions.de/.
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https://hiddenchampionsfund.com/.
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Breiding, J. (2019). Too Small to Fail: Why Some Small Nations Outperform Larger Ones and How They Are Reshaping the World, New York: Harper Business. The eight countries are Switzerland, Israel, Singapore, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Sweden.
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Cf. www.hcmi.kr, homepage in Korean.
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Julian Schenkenhofer, J. (2020). “Hidden Champions: A Review of the Literature and Future Research Avenues”, Working Paper Series 06–20, Chair of Management und Organization, University of Augsburg, p. 15.
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In Japan Stefan Lippert, in China Deng Di and Jan Yang, in Korea Pil H. Yoo, in Poland Marek Dietl, in Italy Danilo Zatta, in France Stephan Guinchard, in the Netherlands Onno Oldeman.
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McKiernan, P. & Purg, D. (eds.) (2019). Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey: Carving Out a Global Niche, Heidelberg: Springer; Braček Lalić, A. & Purg, D., (ed.) (2021). Hidden Champions in Dynamically Changing Societies, Basel: Springer Nature.
