Staff

MA (Economic Science) (First Class Honours, Stephen Scholar) 1969, DLitt (Small Business Enterprise) 2012 Aberdeen University, MSc (Economic Theory and Econometrics) Southampton University 1971, PhD (Industrial Organization) Edinburgh University 1975, Hon DBA (Business Economics) Abertay Dundee University 2010. Previously Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Economics, Acting Head of Economics Department, Edinburgh University (1971-1991). Currently Professor of Economics in St Andrews and Founder/Director of the Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm (CRIEFF) (1991-2013). He has held Visiting Professorships in the USA, Canada and France, and was a Visiting Scholar in Darwin College, University of Cambridge. Has published ten books, including Risk Appraisal and Venture Capital in High Technology New Ventures, The Foundations of Small Business Enterprise, Theories of Industrial Organization, Classical Economic Growth, Small Business Enterprise, and Venture Capital Investment. He has published over seventy refereed academic articles in journals like Economica, Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, Bulletin of Economic Research, Manchester School, Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics, European Journal of Finance, Accounting and Business Research, Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Management Accounting Research, etc. His current research includes corporate governance, intellectual property, high technology clusters, small business growth and finance, financial reporting, risk and venture capital investment. He has held research grants from all the major UK funding bodies, including: ESRC, Leverhulme, Nuffield, Esmee Fairnbairn, British Academy, CIMA, Carnegie. He has been President of the Scottish Economic Society, the National Conference of University Professors, and the Institute of Contemporary Scotland. He has been Chair of two ESRC research network: the Network of Industrial Economists (NIE); and Seminars in Accounting, Finance and Economics (SAFE). He is currently a Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and an Advisor to the Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. 

• EC4517 Small Business Economics (PMT)
• EC5501 Thinking Strategically (PMT)
• EC5506 Entrepreneurship & Small Business Planning (PMT)
• EC5606 Corporate Governance & Risk (PMT)

Industrial organization, small business enterprise, entrepreneurship, intellectual property, financial reporting, information systems, microeconomics, high technology, corporate governance

• Reid, G.C. (and Z. Xu) (2012), ‘Generalising Gibrat: using Chinese evidence founded on field-work’, Small Business Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-93383
• Reid, G.C. (and B. Power) (2012) ‘Organisational Change and Performance in Long-Lived Small Firms’ European Journal of Finance, DOI:10.1080/1351847X.2012.670124
• Reid, G.C. (and V. Ujjual) (2011), ‘Performance and Optimality for High Technology Firms: an empirical analysis of growth and innovation’. Chapter 3 in R.J. Fairchild (ed.) Entrepreneurship: Motivation, Performance and Risk/Reward, Nova Publishing, Hauppage, NY, USA. ISBN 978-1-61470-148-4
• Gavin C Reid (with J A Smith) (2009) ‘A co-evolutionary analysis of organizational systems and processes:  quantitative applications to information system dynamics in small entrepreneurial firms’. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 20, 762-781.
• Gavin C Reid (with J A Smith) (2008) Risk Appraisal and Venture Capital in High Technology New Ventures, London, Routledge, ISBN: 9780415373517, (248 pages). Paperback edn. 2010.