Scientific paper from 2008 in the field of Business Administration - Corporate Management, Management, Organization. Course: Management, 29 sources in the bibliography, Language: German. Abstract: Research on success factors is a subfield of strategic management that has developed from corporate planning. Focusing on the so-called success factors or core competencies of a company is seen as an effective means of crisis management and realignment of corporate policy. The emphasis is not on individual aspects, but on the success of the enterprise as a whole. Classifying success factor approaches is challenging, as the approaches come from a variety of disciplines. This paper presents the most well-known classification attempts.