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Pierre DUSSAUGE

Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

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Biography

Pierre Dussauge holds an Msc. degree from HEC and earned a Ph.D. in Management Science from Paris-Dauphine University. He was a visiting professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Ross Business School of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) from 1991 to 2003; he has also had teaching assignments at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), at IESE (Barcelona, Spain), at INCAE (Costa Rica), at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), etc.
Pierre Dussauge is the author or co-author of several books in the field of strategic management (Strategic Technology Management, J. Wiley & Sons, 1992 ; Stratégie d'entreprise: études de cas, InterEditions, 1993; Les Stratégies d'Alliance, Editions d'Organisation, 1995; Cooperative Strategy, J. Wiley & Sons, 1999; Strategor, 2009) ; Les Stratégies d'Alliance received the 1995 McKinsey award for best management book published in France. He is also the author of many articles published in academic or practitioner-oriented journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, MIT-Sloan Management Review, etc. For the last few years, his research has focused on the topic of global strategic alliances.

In addition to his academic work, Pierre Dussauge has been a consultant or a management educator with a number of firms in Europe and in the US, notably : Mars, Fiat, Schneider, Pechiney, EADS, Generali, SCOR, SNCF, American Airlines, DuPont de Nemours, IBM, APEX, Suez, Unilever, France-Telecom, Neopost, Air France - KLM, Publicis, etc.

Scientific articles

Alliances stratégiques : mode d'emploi

Revue Française de Gestion, September-October 1991, n° 85, pp 4-18, (in coll. with B. GARRETTE)

Les alliances stratégiques entre firmes concurrentes : le cas des industries aérospatiale et de l'armement

Revue Française de Gestion, September-October 1990, n° 80, pp 5-16,

La technologie, source d'avantage concurrentiel

Revue Française du Marketing, 1988, vol. 117, n° 2, pp 33-54, (in coll. with B. RAMANANTSOA)

Stratégies relationnelles et stratégies d'alliances technologiques

Revue Française de Gestion, March-April-May 1988, n° 68, pp 7-9, (in coll. with B. RAMANANTSOA, B. GARRETTE)

La baisse des exportations françaises d'armement et ses répercussions industrielles

Revue de Défense Nationale, January 1988, pp 77-93,

Activités dans l'armement et stratégie d'entreprise

Revue de Défense Nationale, July 1986, pp 103-115,

Technologie et Stratégie

Harvard L'Expansion, Summer 1986, pp 62-81, (in coll. with B. RAMANANTSOA)

Activité dans l'armement et stratégie d'entreprise

Problèmes Economiques, 30 April 1986, n° 1972, pp 24-28,

L'industrie d'armement : formation des prix, évolution des coûts et performances économiques

Revue de Défense Nationale, 2 December 1985, pp 49-66,

"French "savoir faire" in selling arms: a new way of doing business ?"

Long Range Planning, October 1985, vol. 18, n° 5, pp 13-18, (in coll. with J. Anastassopoulos)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

Case Studies

Scientific articles

L'influence du mode de développement sur les avantages lies à la taille : une étude empirique dans le secteur de la grande distribution au niveau mondial

Finance Contrôle Stratégie, September 2005, vol. 8, n° 3, pp 145-176, (in coll. with V. Moatti)

Asymmetric Performance: The Market Share Impact of Scale and Link Alliances in the Global Auto Industry

Strategic Management Journal, July 2004, vol. 25, n° 7, pp 701-711, (in coll. with B. GARRETTE, W. Mitchell)

Alliances with Competitors: How to Combine and Protect Key Resources ?

Creativity and Innovation Management, September 2002, vol. 11, n° 3, pp 203-223, (in coll. with W. Mitchell, B. GARRETTE)

Alliances versus acquisitions: choosing the right option

European Management Journal, February 2000, vol. 18, n° 1, pp 63-69, (in coll. with B. GARRETTE)

Books

Stratégie, structure, décision, identité : politique générale d'entreprise

Dunod (in coll. with les membres du Département Stratégie, Politique d'entreprise sous le pseudonyme de "Strategor", B. GARRETTE )

Strategic Technology Management

John Wiley & Sons US (in coll. with B. RAMANANTSOA, S. Hart )

State-Owned Multinationals, adaptation anglaise de : Les multinationales publiques

John Wiley & Sons US

Technologie et stratégie d'entreprise

McGraw-Hill (in coll. with B. RAMANANTSOA )

Chapters in edited books

The Market Share Impact of Interpartner Learning in Alliances: Evidence from the Global Auto Industry

Cooperative Strategies And Alliances, F. J. Contractor, P. Lorange (Eds), Pergamon

Alliances offensives : le retard de l'Europe

L'Art De L'Entreprise Globale, Guide De La Mondialisation, Village Mondial, Financial Times, Les Echos, 122-129

Strategic Alliances: Why Europe Needs to Catch Up

Mastering Global Business, The Financial Times - FT Pitman Publishing, 151-155

Acquiring Partner's Capabilities: Outcomes of Scale and Link Alliances between Competitors

Managing Strategically In An Interconnected World, 1997 Sms Best Paper Proceedings, M. Hitt, J. E. Ricart, R. D. Nixon (Eds), Editions Belin

Proceedings

Working papers

Case Studies

Education

  • Habilitation a diriger des recherches (Qualified Research Supervisor), Strategy and Business Policy, Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • Doctorat en Sciences de Gestion (Ph.D. in Management), Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • Doctorat de 3e cycle en Sciences des Organisations (Ph.D.), Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • DEA de gestion, Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • Diplome Grande Ecole HEC Paris (Master Degree in Management), HEC Paris - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2024- Department Head, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Member, Strategic Management Society (SMS)
  • Member, Association Internationale de Management Strategique (AIMS)
  • Member, Comite Executif de la European Management Association (EURAM)
  • Member, Academy of Management (AOM)

Editorial activities

  • January 2002-January 2005 Editor in Chief, European Management Review

  • Conference organisation

  • 2001-2001 Member of the Executive Committee of the European Academy of Management Conference: "European Management Research: Trends and Challenges", IESE, Barcelone.
  • 1999- Membre du Comité Scientifique de la VIIIe Conférence de l'AIMS, Paris
  • 1996- Membre du Comité Scientifique de la Ve Conférence de l'AIMS, Lille
  • 1996-1996 Membre du Comité Scientifique de la CEMS Academic Conference, St Gallen
  • 1992-1992 Président du comité d'organisation de la 2ème Conférence Internationale de Gestion Stratégique, Groupe HEC
  • Co-organisateur de la conférence annuelle de l'EURAM
  • Awards & honors

    • 2016 Nominee for the 2016 SMS Annual Conference Best Paper for "Contrasting Effects of Board and Top Management Political Connections on Acquisition and International Expansion Strategies", Working Paper, Joao Albino Pimentel, Rahul Anand, and Pierre Dussauge
    • 2007 Highly Commended Paper Award decerne par Emerald Group Publishing au papier Value Creation and Appropriation in Multilaterally Connected Firms: The Role of Resource Complementarity And Resource Incompatibility lors de la conference annuelle de lEURAM, 16-19 mai 2007
    • 2002 BNP Paribas Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award
    • 2000 Nomination pour le prix McKinsey du meilleur papier presente a la conference la SMS pour "Creating and Protecting Resources: Formation and Governance of Scale and Link Alliances between Competitors"
    • 1999 Prix de la Fondation HEC 1999 pour l'ouvrage "Cooperative Strategy - Competing Successfully through Strategic Alliances", J. Wiley, 1999 (en coll. avec B. Garrette)
    • 1998 "Stylo d'Or" des meilleurs cas, decerne par la Centrale de Cas et de Medias Pedagogiques
    • 1995 Prix AFPLANE - l'Expansion - McKinsey du meilleur livre de Management pour Les strategies d'alliance
    • 1989 Prix Harvard-L'Expansion 1989 pour l'ouvrage : Technologie et Strategie d'Entreprise, McGraw-Hill, 1987