%0 Unpublished work %T An Evolutionist Approach to Competitiveness for the Upstream Sector of the Oil industry in a Long Term Perspective %T Cahiers du CEG, n° 27 %+ IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) %+ Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP) %A Cueille, Jean-Philippe %A dos Santos, Edmilson Moutinho %8 1998-05 %D 1998 %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and FinancePreprints, Working Papers, ... %X The purpose of this work is to analyze the concepts of competition and competitivenessin the upstream sector of the international oil industry, and to attempt to identify thepossibilities for the future development of this sector as well as the cornpetitiveinteractions that may exist between the major oil actors, i.e. the international oilcompanies. For this purpose, we develop a model of "oil competition" and a definjtion of"oil competitiveness11 that take clearly into consideration both the differences between thevarious oil actors and the dynarnic aspects linked to the evolution of the oil industry.We do so by constructing an evolutionist model of oil competition and competitiveness.This approach emulates a "biological process" in which firms and the economicenvironment interact with each other in a process similar to "natural selection", with thesurvival of the fittest. We then introduce the notion of the "dominant form ofcompetition". In addition, this evolutionist model uses some analytical instrumentsestablished by Michael Porter, from the University of Harvard, which allow us to definethe concept of "generic competitive strategy of enterprises". We can thus interpret thedissimilarities of behavior of various oil actors as weU as the temporal changes in theirstrategies, in an attempt to explain the evolution of their respective role in an oil worldthat is perpetually changing. %G English %2 https://ifp.hal.science/hal-02435482/document %2 https://ifp.hal.science/hal-02435482/file/CEG27VAc.pdf %L hal-02435482 %U https://ifp.hal.science/hal-02435482 %~ SHS %~ IFP %~ AO-ECONOMIE %~ CAHIERS-ECONOMIE