Nationality Scottish Role Economist Name Gavin Reid | Profession Economist | |
Born 25 August 1946 (age 77)
Glasgow, Scotland ( 1946-08-25 ) Books The kinked demand curve analysis of oligopoly Education University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh | ||
Alma mater University of Aberdeen | ||
Gavin Clydesdale Reid is a Scottish economist and past President of the Scottish Economic Society (1999–2002). He is Head of Dundee Business School Abertay University and was Founding Director of the Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm (CRIEFF) in the School of Economics & Finance at the University of St Andrews.
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Background
He is a graduate of the Universities of Aberdeen, Southampton and Edinburgh. His approach is heavily grounded by fieldwork in the business enterprise, and he favours an interdisciplinary approach to the study of a firm, combining economics with accounting and finance.
In 2014 he became Head of Dundee Business School Abertay University.
Publications
His book Small Business Enterprise (1993), uses econometric analysis to examine a body of small firms, and is one of several that have been favourably reviewed. He has written and presented research papers,
His recent work has been on strategies for the growth and performance of high-technology firms.
One of his books, The Foundations of Small Business Enterprise, was published by Routledge in 2007