Gendron began his university studies in 1982 at Université du Québec where he obtained, in 1985, his Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a specialization in accounting.

[1] Post-certification, he spent most of 1992 completing propaedeutic courses at Laval University in order to meet the requirements of admission to the PhD program.

[1] His thesis was dedicated to the decision of accepting new clients in audit firms as a result of a compromise between logics of action.

[1][3] Gendron does qualitative research that examines the daily lives of auditors, focusing on how they make decisions or how they handle stress.

His work also looks at the legitimization processes that surround public accountants’ claims to expertise, particularly in emerging fields of practice such as performance measurement, online auditing, and consulting.