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Analyzing the competitive dynamics of strategic alliances requires the development of original specific qualitative research tools. We propose a qualitative method for longitudinal analysis which integrates the three traditional dimensions of strategy – the market, market structures and the non-market environment – plus an additional dimension specific to alliances : inter-market relationships. We explain how to use the SMAA – Sequential and Multidimensional Analysis of Alliances – before applying it to the European railway sector. Compared to the traditional qualitative methods, the SMAA allows highlighting the dynamics of alliance portfolio effects resulting from the multiplication of points of contact between partners and competitors.
Keywords: méthode qualitative, séquences stratégiques, alliance, effets de portefeuilles, dynamique concurrentielle, qualitative methodology, strategic sequences, alliances, portfolio effects, competitive dynamics, método cualitativo, secuencias estratégicas, alianzas, efectos en portafolios, dinámica competitiva
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This paper aims to depict the Plan Nord's duplicity with regards to development. The Plan Nord shows two faces: whereas one of them explores the cultural and social dimensions of development so as to conceive of the North as a vast cross-cultural field, the other face, by contrast, focuses on an exclusively economist and capitalist vision, which encourages the profit-based exploitation of natural resources. In our perspective, which is chiefly geographical, promoters and actors of the Plan Nord run the risk of imposing once again a “southern” view of the North and not engaging in the path of cross-cultural dialogue. This is history repeating itself.