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.

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.