[1] He was Head of Dundee Business School Abertay University (until 2018) 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.
He is currently an honorary professor in the School of Economics & Finance at St Andrews University.
His approach is heavily grounded by fieldwork in the business enterprise,[2][3][4] and he favours an interdisciplinary approach to the study of a firm, combining economics with accounting and finance.
[5] In 2014 he became Head of Dundee Business School Abertay University.
[7] He has written and presented research papers,[8][9] In 2008 he was involved with work on strategies for the growth and performance of high-technology firms[10] One of his books, The Foundations of Small Business Enterprise, was published by Routledge in 2007 [11]