Professor Jimmy Donaghey

Professor in OB/HRM UniSA Business

City West Campus (EM5-22)
tel +61 8 830 24191

email Jimmy.Donaghey@unisa.edu.au

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About me

Jimmy Donaghey is Professor of Human Resource Management at UniSA Business School since January 2020. He received his PhD (supervised by Professor Paul Teague) on social partnership in Ireland from Queen's University Belfast, where he subsequently held a lectureship in management from 2002-2010. In 2010, he joined the University of Warwick as Associate Professor in international and comparative employment relations and was a member of the Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU). He was promoted to Professor in 2015.

Jimmy's research interests focus on the effects of globalisation on the employment relationship and worker voice. This has included examining social pacts in the context of globalisation, the role of... Read more

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Research

Highlights

Jimmy's current research focuses on the effects of supply chains on the employment relationship with a particular focus on the response to the Rana Plaza. This research, with Juliane Reinecke of King's College London, uses perspectives from both employment relations and corporare social responsibility to inform its research. To date, this research has seen publications in journals including Human Resource Management, Organization, the British Journal of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Management Studies. In addition, the book "Stitching Governance for Labour Rights: Towards Transnational Industrial Democracy?" (Cambridge University Press) bringing together the core theme of the 8 year longitudinal study came out in ... Read more

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2023	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2023, Stitching governance for labour rights: towards transnational industrial democracy?, Cambridge University Press, UK. 2 18
2022	Tassinari, A, Donaghey, J & Galetto, M 2022, 'Puzzling choices in hard times: Union ideologies of social concertation in the Great Recession', Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Online, pp. 1-26. Open access 10 9 8
2021	Morris, J, Jenkins, J & Donaghey, J 2021, 'Uneven development, uneven response: the relentless search for meaningful regulation of GVCs', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 3-24. Open access 12 11 10
2021	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2021, 'Political CSR at the coalface - the roles and contradictions of multinational corporations in developing workplace dialogue', Journal of Management Studies, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 457-486. Open access 51 46 13
2020	Hickland, E, Cullinane, N, Dobbins, T, Dundon, T & Donaghey, J 2020, 'Employer silencing in a context of voice regulations: case studies of non-compliance', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 537-552. Open access 21 17 58

Books

Year	Output
2023	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2023, Stitching governance for labour rights: towards transnational industrial democracy?, Cambridge University Press, UK. 2 18
2020	Wilkinson, A, Donaghey, J, Dundon, T & Freeman, RB 2020, Handbook of research on employee voice, second edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK. 5 3
2019	Holland, P, Teicher, J & Donaghey, J 2019, Employee voice at work, Springer, Singapore. 8
2018	Wilkinson, A, Dundon, T, Donaghey, J & Colvin, A 2018, The Routledge companion to employment relations, Routledge, UK. 6 13
2014	Wilkinson, A, Donaghey, J, Dundon, T & Freeman, RB 2014, Handbook of research on employee voice, Edward Elgar, UK. 86 10

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Donaghey, J 2023, 'Global supply chains', in S Johnstone, JK Rodriguez & A Wilkinson (eds), Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 153-153.
2023	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2023, 'The politics of collaborative governance in global supply chains: power and pushback in the Bangladesh accord', in P Delimatsis, S Bijlmakers & MK Borowicz (eds), The Evolution of Transnational Rule-Makers through Crises, Cambridge University Press, UK, ch. 8, pp.154-173. Open access
2020	Cullinane, N & Donaghey, J 2020, 'Employee silence', in A Wilkinson, J Donaghey, T Dundon & R Freeman (eds), Handbook of Research on Employee Voice, Second Edition, 2, Edward Elgar, UK, ch. 27, pp. 474-485. 6
2020	Tassinari, A & Donaghey, J 2020, 'Social partnership in Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession', in D Pohler (ed.), Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment, Cornell University Press, US, ch. 5 , pp. 113-141. Open access
2020	Wilkinson, A, Dundon, T, Donaghey, J & Freeman, RB 2020, 'Employee voice: bridging new terrains and disciplinary boundaries', in A Wilkinson et al. (eds), Handbook of Research on Employee Voice, 2nd ed., Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, US, ch. 1, pp. 2-18. Open access 13
2019	Donaghey, J, Dundon, T, Cullinane, N, Dobbins, T & Hickland, E 2019, 'Managerial silencing of employee voice', in P Holland, J Teicher & J Donaghey (eds), Employee voice at work, Springer, Singapore, ch. 6, pp. 113-128. Open access
2018	Donaghey, J & Reinecke, J 2018, 'Global supply chains and employment relations', in A Wilkinson, T Dundon, J Donaghey & AJS Colvin (eds), The Routledge companion to employment relations, Routledge, UK, ch. 21, pp. 342-356.
2018	Wilkinson, A, Dundon, T, Donaghey, J & Colvin, AJ 2018, 'Employment relations: older reflections and new horizons', in A Wilkinson, T Dundon, J Donaghey & A Colvin, The Routledge companion to employment relations, Routledge, UK, ch. 1, pp. 1-17.
2016	Donaghey, J 2016, 'Trojan horse or tactic? The case for partnership', in S Johnston & A Wilkinson (eds), Developing positive employment relations: international experiences of labour management partnership, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, ch. 2, pp. 25-47. 2
2015	Cooke, GB, Hutchings, D, Donaghey, J & Zeytinoglu, IU 2015, 'Rural. Beyond deprivation theory: examining rural experience', in T Boland & R Griffin (eds), The Sociology of Unemployment, Manchester University Press, UK, ch. 5.
2015	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2015, 'The 'accord for fire and building safety in Bangladesh' in response to the Rana Plaza disaster', in A Marx et al. (eds), Global governance of labour rights: assessing the effectiveness of transnational public and private policy initiatives, Edward Elgar, UK, ch. 12, pp. 257-277. 23
2014	Cullinane, N & Donaghey, J 2014, 'Employee silence', in A Wilkinson, J Donaghey, T Dundon & R Freeman (eds), Handbook of research on employee voice, Edward Elgar, UK, ch. 24, pp. 398-409. 14
2014	Dundon, T, Donaghey, J & Cullinane, N 2014, 'Legislating for NER? NER and the ICE Regulations at Manufacture Co.', Voice and involvement at work: experience with non-union representation, Taylor & Francis, UK, ch. 5, pp. 1-19. 1
2014	Goyer, M, Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2014, 'Globalization and labour market governance', in A Wilkinson, G Wood, & R Deeg (eds), The Oxford handbook of employment relations: comparative employment systems, Oxford University Press, UK, ch. 20, pp. 1-24.
2014	Wilkinson, A, Dundon, T, Donaghey, J & Freeman, RB 2014, 'Employee voice: charting new terrain', in A Wilkinson, J Donaghey, T Dundon & R Freeman (eds), Handbook of research on employee voice, Edward Elgar, UK, ch. 1, pp. 3-16. 64
2013	Cullinane, N, Dundon, T, Hickland, E, Dobbins, T & Donaghey, J 2013, 'Beyond union avoidance? Exploring the dynamics of double-breasting voice regimes in Ireland', in G Gall & T Dundon (eds), Global anti-unionism: nature, dynamics, trajectories and outcomes, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, ch. 7, pp. 121-142.
2012	Cullinane, N & Donaghey, J 2012, 'Union and non-union employee representation at BritCo Ireland', in T Dundon & A Wilkinson (eds), Case studies in global management, Tilde University Press, Australia, ch. 25, pp. 222-230.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Donaghey, J, Cullinane, N, Dundon, T, Dobbins, T & Hickland, E 2022, 'Employee choice of voice and non-union worker representation', Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 503-522. Open access 7 6 6
2022	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2022, 'Transnational representation in global labour governance and the politics of input legitimacy', Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 438-474. Open access 14 5
2022	Tassinari, A, Donaghey, J & Galetto, M 2022, 'Puzzling choices in hard times: Union ideologies of social concertation in the Great Recession', Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Online, pp. 1-26. Open access 10 9 8
2021	Cooke, GB, Hutchings, D, Donaghey, J & Zeytinoglu, IU 2021, 'Happy at a price: employment challenges, life satisfaction, and lifestyle benefits among older individuals in rural communities in Canada and Ireland', Community, Work and Family, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 39-59. 3 2
2021	Morris, J, Jenkins, J & Donaghey, J 2021, 'Uneven development, uneven response: the relentless search for meaningful regulation of GVCs', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 3-24. Open access 12 11 10
2021	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2021, 'Political CSR at the coalface - the roles and contradictions of multinational corporations in developing workplace dialogue', Journal of Management Studies, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 457-486. Open access 51 46 13
2021	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2021, 'Towards worker-driven supply chain governance: developing decent work through democratic worker participation', Journal of Supply Chain Management, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 14-28. Open access 52 48 2
2021	van Buren, HJ, Greenwood, M, Donaghey, J & Reinecke, J 2021, 'Agonising over industrial relations: bringing agonism and dissensus to the pluralist frames of reference', Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 177-203. Open access 14 12 3
2020	Hickland, E, Cullinane, N, Dobbins, T, Dundon, T & Donaghey, J 2020, 'Employer silencing in a context of voice regulations: case studies of non-compliance', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 537-552. Open access 21 17 58
2018	Donaghey, J & Reinecke, J 2018, 'When industrial democracy meets corporate social responsibility - a comparison of the Bangladesh accord and alliance as responses to the Rana Plaza disaster', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 14-42. Open access 160 140 4
2018	Reinecke, J, Donaghey, J, Wilkinson, A & Wood, G 2018, 'Global supply chains and social relations at work: brokering across boundaries', Human Relations, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 459-480. Open access 53 46 14
2018	Teague, P & Donaghey, J 2018, 'Brexit: EU social policy and the UK employment model', Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 49, pp. 512-533. Open access 5 7
2017	Cullinane, N, Hickland, E, Dundon, T, Dobbins, T & Donaghey, J 2017, 'Triggering employee voice under the European information and consultation directive: a non-union case study', Economic and Industrial Democracy: An International Journal, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 629-655. Open access 9 8 4
2017	Dobbins, T, Dundon, T, Cullinane, N, Hickland, E & Donaghey, J 2017, 'Employment regulation, game theory and weak employee voice in liberal economies', International Labour Review, vol. 156, no. 3-4, pp. 395-422. Open access 10 10 1
2016	Meardi, G, Donaghey, J & Dean, D 2016, 'The strange non-retreat of the state: implications for the sociology of work', Human Relations, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 559-572. Open access 13 13 4
2015	Reinecke, J & Donaghey, J 2015, 'After Rana Plaza: building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations', Organization, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 720-740. Open access 190 155 26
2015	Teague, P & Donaghey, J 2015, 'The life and death of Irish social partnership: lessons for social pacts', Business History, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 418-437. Open access 16 17 3
2014	Cullinane, N, Donaghey, J, Dundon, T, Hickland, E & Dobbins, T 2014, 'Regulating for mutual gains? Non-union employee representation and the Information and Consultation Directive', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 810-828. Open access 25 23 1
2014	Donaghey, J, Reinecke, J, Niforou, C & Lawson, B 2014, 'From employment relations to consumption relations: balancing labor governance in global supply chains', Human Resource Management, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 229-252. 123 94 11
2014	Dundon, T, Cullinane, N, Donaghey, J, Dobbins, T, Wilkinson, A & Hickland, E 2014, 'Double-breasting employee voice: an assessment of motives, arrangements and durability', Human Relations, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 489-513. Open access 17 16 2
2014	Dundon, T, Dobbins, T, Cullinane, N, Hickland, E & Donaghey, J 2014, 'Employer occupation of regulatory space of the Employee Information and Consultation (I&C) Directive in liberal market economies', Work Employment and Society, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 21-39. Open access 36 38 2
2014	Wilkinson, A, Dundon, T, Donaghey, J & Townsend, K 2014, 'Partnership, collaboration and mutual gains: evaluating context, interests and legitimacy', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 737-747. Open access 25 15 2
2013	Cooke, GB, Donaghey, J & Zeytinoglu, IU 2013, 'The nuanced nature of work quality: evidence from rural Newfoundland and Ireland', Human Relations, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 503-527. Open access 36 39
2012	Cullinane, N, Donaghey, J, Dundon, T & Dobbins, T 2012, 'Different rooms, different voices: double-breasting, multi-channel representation and the managerial agenda', International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 368-384. Open access 13 8
2012	Donaghey, J, Cullinane, N, Dundon, T & Dobbins, T 2012, 'Non-union employee representation, union avoidance and the managerial agenda', Economic and Industrial Democracy: An International Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 163-183. Open access 24 21
2011	Donaghey, J, Cullinane, N, Dundon, T & Wilkinson, A 2011, 'Reconceptualising employee silence: problems and prognosis', Work Employment and Society, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 51-67. Open access 173 142
2009	Teague, P & Donaghey, J 2009, 'Social partnership and democratic legitimacy in Ireland', New Political Economy, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 49-69. 16 9
2009	Teague, P & Donaghey, J 2009, 'Why has Irish social partnership survived?', British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 55-78. 45 44
2008	Donaghey, J 2008, 'Deliberation, employment relations and social partnership in the Republic of Ireland', Economic and Industrial Democracy: An International Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 35-63. 6 6

Reports

Year	Output
2019	Reinecke, J, Donaghey, J, Bocken, N & Lauriano, L 2019, Business models and labour standards: making the connection, Ethical Trading Initiative, UK. Open access
2017	Reinecke, J, Donaghey, J & Hoggarth, D 2017, From social auditing to social dialogue: implementing workplace social dialogue in the Bangladesh garment industry, University of Warwick, UK. Open access
2013	Donaghey, J, Carley, M, Purcell, J & Hall, M 2013, National practices of information and consultation in Europe, Eurofound, Ireland. Open access

Other outputs

Donaghey, J. and Teague, P. (2007) “The Mixed fortunes of Irish Unions: Living with the Paradoxes of Social Partnership” in Journal of Labor Research 28 (1): 19-41

Donaghey, J. and Teague, P. (2006) “The Free Movement of Workers and Social Europe: Maintaining the European Ideal” Industrial Relations Journal, 37 (6) : 652-666

Donaghey, J. (2006) “Social Pacts in the Republic of Ireland since 1987” in International Labor Brief, 8(2) : 97-109

Donaghey, J. and Teague, P. (2005) “The persistence of social pacts in Europe” Industrial Relations Journal 36 (6) : 478-493

Teague, P. and Donaghey, J. (2003) “European economic government and the corporatist quid quo pro” Industrial Relations Journal 34 (2) : 104-118

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Editor of Journal Work, Employment and Society

Area Editor Economic and Labour Relations Review

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Bangor Business School	UNITED KINGDOM
Bangor University	UNITED KINGDOM
Cardiff University	UNITED KINGDOM
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
Cornell University	UNITED STATES
Dublin City University	IRELAND
European University Institute	ITALY
Griffith University	AUSTRALIA
Harvard University	UNITED STATES
Kemmy Business School	IRELAND
King's College London	UNITED KINGDOM
Lund University	SWEDEN
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies	GERMANY
McMaster University	CANADA
Memorial University of Newfoundland	CANADA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
National University of Ireland, Galway	IRELAND
Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation	CANADA
Queen's University	CANADA
Queen's University Belfast	UNITED KINGDOM
Queens University, Belfast	IRELAND
Swinburne University of Technology	AUSTRALIA
University of Bangor	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Birmingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Essex	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Limerick	IRELAND
University of Manchester	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of St. Thomas	UNITED STATES
University of Warwick	UNITED KINGDOM

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Academic Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development	2020
Associate Editor Human Resource Management Journal	2020
Editorial Board Member British Journal of Management	2020
Member Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics	2020
Member British Universities Industrial Relations Association	2020
Peer Review College Member Economic and Social Research Council	2020
Academic Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development	2019
Associate Editor Human Resource Management Journal	2019
Editorial Board Member British Journal of Management	2019
Member Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics	2019
Member British Universities Industrial Relations Association	2019
Peer Review College Member Economic and Social Research Council	2019
Academic Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development	2018
Associate Editor Human Resource Management Journal	2018
Editorial Board Member British Journal of Management	2018
Member British Universities Industrial Relations Association	2018
Member Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics	2018
Peer Review College Member Economic and Social Research Council	2018
Visiting Fellow, Employment Relations Unit, Griffith Business School Griffith University	2018
Academic Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development	2017
Associate Editor Human Resource Management Journal	2017
Editorial Board Member British Journal of Management	2017
Member British Universities Industrial Relations Association	2017
Member Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics	2017
Peer Review College Member Economic and Social Research Council	2017
Academic Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development	2016
Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Postgraduate Program Warwick University	2016
Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Undergraduate Program Warwick University	2016
Editorial Board Member British Journal of Management	2016
Member British Universities Industrial Relations Association	2016
Member Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics	2016
Peer Review College Member Economic and Social Research Council	2016
Academic Fellow Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development	2015
Editorial Board Member British Journal of Management	2015
Member Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics	2015
Member British Universities Industrial Relations Association	2015
Peer Review College Member Economic and Social Research Council	2015

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Professor Jimmy Donaghey

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