Let \(V_{1}\) , ..., \(V_{k}\) be non-null bounded multilinear operators, \( T:Y_{1}\times \cdot \cdot \cdot \times Y_{k}\rightarrow Z\) a bounded multilinear operator with the property that there exists \(m>0\) such that \( \left\| T\left( y_{1},...,y_{k}\right) \right\| \ge m\left\| y_{1}\right\| \cdot \cdot \cdot \left\| y_{k}\right\| \) for all \( \left( y_{1},...,y_{k}\right) \in Y_{1}\times \cdot \cdot \cdot \times Y_{k}\) and \(1\le p<\infty \) . We prove that \(T\circ \left( V_{1},...,V_{k}\right) \) is strongly p-summing (resp. p-dominated) if and only if all \(V_{i}\) are strongly p-summing (resp. p-dominated). Various concrete examples are given.