Personal Statement
Allan Macpherson currently works on the Doctorate of Business Administration. He is the Director of Studies for the Online DBA and for the Executive DBA. In these roles he is responsible for the day-to-day management and development of the programmes. In addition, he supervises doctoral candidate's thesis projects that are focused on managing real strategic change in organizations. Projects include working with senior management in organizations in health care, pharmaceuticals, electronics, charities and the United Nations.

Research Overview
My research is focused on Entrepreneurial and Organizational Learning. Recent research projects have focused on learning from improvisation, and inter-organizational learning. The first examines how Fire and Rescue Services respond to improvisation by front line firefighters and incorporate learning from these crisis events into system policies and practices. The second examines how inter-organizational learning develops through a strategic collaboration between two police forces. Other research focuses on the entrepreneurial learning processes amongst entrepreneurs who attend venture development training sponsored by a university.