Why does one country take the lead over others in the development and introduction of environmental innovations? This book analyzes lead markets for innovations such as fuel cells and photovoltaics, and offers insight into why this is. The authors use case studies to illustrate the policy...

Investment goods and services require the particular acceptance of buying, technical and strategic departments in customer organisations. The empirical evidence of large scale consumer (B2C) studies therefore bear no validity for B2B decision scenarios in large corporations. Monika Maria...

This casebook demonstrates that the future of global business lies in how well the multinational landscape is charted and how the importance of Asian market leaders is deeply embedded in it. It offers international management students and researchers an extensive guide to the business history,...

This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. These theories are applied to models of competition in quantities, prices...

Matthias Pittrof zeigt die große Bedeutung der Unternehmenskultur für den Unternehmenserfolg anhand der sogenannten Hidden Champions, der unbekannten mittelständischen Weltmarktführer, auf. Der Autor ermittelt die Unternehmenskultur der Hidden Champions als intangiblen strategischen...

This book presents a list of emerging and established companies which have a strong belief in the digital economy and elaborate their unique digital innovations. The companies selected for this book are from a variety of industries, including both Chinese and international leading technology...

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...

Darwin fährt Auto – Lehren aus der Natur! -- Wie der Auslesewettbewerb funktioniert -- Welcher Automobilhersteller hat die besten Überlebenschancen -- Die Karten werden neu gemischt: Vom Aufstieg und Fall wesentlicher Marktspieler -- Zehn Gründe, warum die deutsche Automobilindustrie...

Basics of investigation -- Conceptualization of market-driving behavior in emerging firms -- Measurement of market-driving behavior in emerging firms -- Empirical study of market-driving behavior in emerging technology firms -- Discussion -- Summary