隠れたチャンピオン（かくれたちゃんぴおん、ドイツ語:Hidden champions,ドイツ語略称:H.C.）は、ドイツのハーマン・サイモン によって提唱された経営学上の用語。比較的規模は小さく、一般的な知名度は低いが、ある分野において、非常に優れた実績・きわめて高い市場シェアを持つ会社のことを指す。

概要 
ドイツの経営思想家であり、コンサルティング会社サイモン・クチャーアンドパートナーズ創業者でもあるハーマン・サイモンが、ドイツのビジネス出版物のタイトルとして使用し、ドイツにおける小規模だが、高度に専門化され、世界市場でもリーダーとなっている企業群について説明したことから広まった概念である。    

ハーマン・サイモンの定義によれば、隠れたチャンピオンとは、以下の3つの基準を満たす企業のことを指す：  

 市場シェアの基準：グローバルで1～3位、または当該企業のある地域（アジア、ヨーロッパ、北米等）で1位。 
 売上の基準： 40億ドル未満 
 認知度の基準：一般の人には知られていない。

「隠れたチャンピオン」のリスト 
ハーマン・サイモンが、2009年に選択した「隠れたチャンピオン」企業のリストを下記に掲載する  

 3B Scientific (anatomical teaching aids)
 Corticeira Amorim (cork products)
 ARRI (cinema cameras)
 Belfor (removal of fire and water damages)
 Beluga Shipping (heavy-lift shipping company; insolvent)
 Bobcat Company (farm and construction equipment)
 Brainlab (medical software and hardware)
 Friwo Gerätebau GmbH (charging devices, power supplies, led drivers, battery packs)
 De La Rue (security printing, papermaking and cash handling systems)
 DELO Industrie Klebstoffe (adhesives for chip cards)
 Embraer (regional jets)
 Dickson Constant (technical textiles for blinds, truck sheeting etc.)
 Enercon (wind turbines)
 Essel Propack (tubes for toothpaste)
 EOS GmbH, (rapid prototyping systems)
 Josef Gartner GmbH (facades for skyscrapers, subsidiary of Permasteelisa)
 Gallagher Group Limited (electric fencing, livestock, weighing equipment)
 Hans Gerriets (single manufacturer of large stage curtains)
 Hamamatsu Photonics (optical sensors including photomultiplier tubes)
 Heraeus Electro-Nite (measurement, monitoring and control of molten metal processes)
 HiFi-Tuning (developing, engineering of finest fuses, out of pure silver &amp; gold)
 Höganäs AB (powdered metals)
 International SOS (medical assistance, health-care, security and risk management services)
 Jamba!/Jamster (cell phone ring tones)
 Austrian Jungbunzlauer (Sodium acetate)
 Klais Orgelbau (large organs)
 Swiss Lantal Textiles (cabins for passenger aircraft)
 McIlhenny Company (Tabasco sauce)
 Molex (electronic components, including electrical and fiber optic)
 NetJets (fractional ownership and rental of private business jets)
 Nissha Printing (small touch panels)
 Nivarox (regulating mechanism inside wristwatches)
 Rud. Baader (supplier of fish processing systems)
 Omicron NanoTechnology (scanning probe and tunnel-grid microscopes)
 Orica (industrial explosives)
 Phoenix Contact (terminal blocks, connectors, interface solutions, industrial automation)
 PLANSEE (high performance materials)
 PERI GmbH (formwork and scaffolding)
 Petzl (climbing gear, caving gear, work-at-height equipment)
 Q-Cells (solar energy, solar cells)
 Radiall (electronic interconnect components)
 Sachtler (tripods for movie cameras)
 SAES Getters (Getter producer)
 Sappi (coated fine paper)
 Schwank (industrial heating)
 SGS, Société Générale de Surveillance (inspection, verification, testing and certification services)
 Tandberg and Polycom (videoconferencing systems)
 O.C. Tanner (company) (employee recognition programs)
 Technogym (fitness equipment)
 Tetra (company) (aquarium and pond supplies)
 ULVAC Technologies, (vacuum technology)
 Universo S.A. (wristwatch hands)
 W.E.T. (car seats heating)
 Webasto (remote-controlled heaters for cars)
 Worldwide.energy (Green Energy)
 Zimmer Holdings, DePuy, Biomet, and Stryker Corporation (all implants, and located in the area of Warsaw, Indiana)

参考文献

参考文献

本、論文 
 Audretsch, David B., Lehmann, Erik E., & Schenkenhofer, Julian (2018). Internationalization strategies of hidden champions: lessons from Germany. Multinational Business Review, 26(1), 2-24.
 Fryges, Helmut: Hidden champions : how young and small technology oriented firms can attain high export sales ratios. Mannheim : Zentrum für Europ. Wirtschaftsforschung, 2006.
 Hanna, Rosemary: Hidden champions of the B. C. forest industry : are small firms at the cutting edge of value chain innovation? Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada, 2007. - .
 Langenscheidt, Florian (Ed.), Venohr, Bernd (Ed.): The Best of German Mittelstand - THE WORLD MARKET LEADERS. DAAB Verlag, Cologne 2015, .
 Merrilees, Bill; Blackburn, Jillian; Tiessen, James; Lindman, Martti: Hidden (SME) Champions : The Role of Innovation and Strategy. In: Chetty, Sylvia (Ed.); Collins, Brett (Ed.): Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference 1–5 December 2001. Auckland: College of Business, Massey University: 2001.
 Neubauer, Regina: Business models in the area of logistics : in search of hidden champions, their business principles and common industry misperceptions. Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010. - 
 Simon, Hermann: Hidden champions : lessons from 500 of the world's best unknown companies. Boston (Mass.): Harvard Business School Press, 1996.- .
 Simon, Hermann: Lehren der Hidden Champions des 21. Jahrhunderts. In: Weissman, Arnold: Erfolgreich mit den Großen des Managements. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 2008.- . S. 109-147.
 Simon, Hermann: Hidden Champions of the 21st Century : Success Strategies of unknown World Market Leaders. London: Springer, 2009.- .
 Venohr, Bernd; Meyer, Klaus: The German Miracle Keeps Running : How Germany’s Hidden Champions Stay Ahead in the Global Economy Berlin: Working Paper No. 30, Institute of Management Berlin, Berlin School of Economics, 2007.
 Venohr, Bernd; Meyer, Klaus: Uncommon common sense Business Strategy Review, Volume 20, issue 1, Spring 2009, p. 39-43
 Voeth, Markus ; Herbst, Uta ; Barisch, Sina: Hidden Champion Region Stuttgart : Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung. Stuttgart : Förderverein für Marketing an der Universität Hohenheim, 2008.
 Witt, Alessa: Internationalisation of hidden champions : market entry and timing strategies with international management and business ethics cases. Hamburg: Management Laboratory, 2010. -

関連項目 
 グローバルニッチトップ - 隠れたチャンピオンの日本版。和製英語。経済産業省が2014年からグローバルニッチトップ企業100選などの選定を行っている。

外部リンク 
 Whiteboard: guest article by Prof. Hermann Simon on the 13 management principles behind Hidden Champions, Dec. 2012
 Whiteboard: guest article by Prof. Hermann Simon on the socio-economic factors that shaped the 'Hidden Champions', Jan. 2013
 Business Week, JANUARY 26, 2004.
 stimmt., Friday, July 31, 2009
 inchina, 2009-09-14
 The Korea Times: 2009-28-04, 2010-28-04
 Japan's Hidden Champions Hold the Key to Revitalization of Regional Economies, 2009
 High cost Germany shows how to succeed in exporting, 11-01-31
 Benchmarking and Hidden Champion to promote local development : Tools description and their application

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