Prof Jimmy Donaghey

Prof Jimmy Donaghey

Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Management

School of Management

College of Business and Law

Available For Media Comment.

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 the EU in employment relations governance and laterally on the governance of employment standards in global supply chains. His main curent research focus is on the developments in transnational governance of workplace health and safety post Rana Plaza in the Bangladesh garment sector.  
Jimmy is Irish, coming from the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal. Outside academic life, he is a lifelong suporter of the Donegal Gaelic Football team (being at both their All Ireland wins in 1992 and 2012) as well as Arsenal FC. Since coming to Adelaide, he has become Secretary of the Gaelic Football and Hurling Association of South Australia. Any students, but particularly those who play Australian Rules or Soccer, interested in trying men's or women's gaelic football should conatct him.  

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 2023.

In addition to this topic, Jimmy also continues his work on worker voice and social pacts. 

  

Year Citation
2025 Kustin, B., Reinecke, J., & Donaghey, J. (2025). Transnational capitalism after postcolonialism: researching the interfaces in global supply chains. Journal of Business Ethics, online(2), 1-19.
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2025 Reinecke, J., & Donaghey, J. (2025). From constructive ambiguity to escalating commitment: the evolution of the Bangladesh Accord as a transnational institution for collective action. Administrative Science Quarterly, 7(3), 733-771.
DOI Scopus4 WoS3
2022 Tassinari, A., Donaghey, J., & Galetto, M. (2022). Puzzling choices in hard times: Union ideologies of social concertation in the Great Recession. Industrial Relations, Online(1), 1-26.
DOI Scopus14 WoS14
2022 Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., Dundon, T., Dobbins, T., & Hickland, E. (2022). Employee choice of voice and non-union worker representation. Industrial Relations Journal, 53(6), 503-522.
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2022 Reinecke, J., & Donaghey, J. (2022). Transnational representation in global labour governance and the politics of input legitimacy. Business Ethics Quarterly, 32(3), 438-474.
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2021 Cooke, G. B., Hutchings, D., Donaghey, J., & Zeytinoglu, I. U. (2021). Happy at a price: employment challenges, life satisfaction, and lifestyle benefits among older individuals in rural communities in Canada and Ireland. Community, Work & Family, 24(1), 39-59.
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2021 Reinecke, J., & Donaghey, J. (2021). Towards worker-driven supply chain governance: developing decent work through democratic worker participation. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 57(2), 14-28.
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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, 58(2), 457-486.
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2021 van Buren, H. J., 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, 63.(2), 177-203.
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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, 59(1), 3-24.
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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, 30(4), 537-552.
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2018 Teague, P., & Donaghey, J. (2018). Brexit: EU social policy and the UK employment model. Industrial Relations Journal, 49(5-6), 512-533.
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2018 Reinecke, J., Donaghey, J., Wilkinson, A., & Wood, G. (2018). Global supply chains and social relations at work: brokering across boundaries. Human Relations, 71(4), 459-480.
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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, 56(1), 14-42.
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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, 156(3-4), 395-422.
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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, 38(4), 629-655.
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2016 Meardi, G., Donaghey, J., & Dean, D. (2016). The strange non-retreat of the state: implications for the sociology of work. Work, employment and society, 30(4), 559-572.
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2015 Teague, P., & Donaghey, J. (2015). The life and death of Irish social partnership: lessons for social pacts. Business History, 57(3), 418-437.
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2015 Reinecke, J., & Donaghey, J. (2015). After Rana Plaza: building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations. Organization, 22(5), 720-740.
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2015 Reinecke, J., Donaghey, J., Wilkinson, A., & Wood, G. (2015). Human Relations special issue call for papers Global supply chains and social relations at work. Human Relations, 68(11), 1801-1805.
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2015 Reinecke, J., Donaghey, J., Wilkinson, A., & Wood, G. (2015). Global supply chains and social relations at work. Human Relations, 68(8), 1381-1385.
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2015 Reinecke, J., Donaghey, J., Wilkinson, A., & Wood, G. (2015). Global supply chains and social relations at work. Human Relations, 68(9), 1521-1525.
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2015 Reinecke, J., Donaghey, J., Wilkinson, A., & Wood, G. (2015). Human Relations special issue call for papers Global supply chains and social relations at work. Human Relations, 68(7), 1236-1240.
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2015 Reinecke, J., Donaghey, J., Wilkinson, A., & Wood, G. (2015). Global supply chains and social relations at work. Human Relations, 68(5), 871-876.
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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, 53(2), 229-252.
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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 & Society, 28(1), 21-39.
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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, 68(3), 489-513.
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2014 Wilkinson, A., Dundon, T., Donaghey, J., & Townsend, K. (2014). Partnership, collaboration and mutual gains: evaluating context, interests and legitimacy. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25(6), 737-747.
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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, 25(6), 810-828.
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2013 Cooke, G. B., Donaghey, J., & Zeytinoglu, I. U. (2013). The nuanced nature of work quality: evidence from rural Newfoundland and Ireland. Human relations, 66(4), 503-527.
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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, 23(2), 368-384.
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2012 Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., Dundon, T., & Dobbins, T. (2012). Non-union employee representation, union avoidance and the managerial agenda. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 33(2), 163-183.
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2011 Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., Dundon, T., & Wilkinson, A. (2011). Reconceptualising employee silence: problems and prognosis. Work, Employment and Society, 25(1), 51-67.
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2009 Teague, P., & Donaghey, J. (2009). Why has Irish social partnership survived?. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 47(1), 55-78.
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2009 Teague, P., & Donaghey, J. (2009). Social partnership and democratic legitimacy in Ireland. New Political Economy, 14(1), 49-69.
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2008 Donaghey, J. (2008). Deliberation, employment relations and social partnership in the Republic of Ireland. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 29(1), 35-63.
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Year Citation
2023 Donaghey, J. (2023). Global supply chains. In S. Johnstone, J. K. Rodriguez, & A. Wilkinson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management (2nd ed. ed., pp. 153). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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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, & M. K. Borowicz (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Evolution of Transnational Rule-Makers through Crises (Vol. 8, pp. 154-173). UK: Cambridge University Press.
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2020 Wilkinson, A., Dundon, T., Donaghey, J., & Freeman, R. B. (2020). Employee voice: bridging new terrains and disciplinary boundaries. In A. Wilkinson (Ed.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Research on Employee Voice (2nd ed. ed., pp. 2-18). US: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
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2020 Cullinane, N., & Donaghey, J. (2020). Employee silence. In A. Wilkinson, J. Donaghey, T. Dundon, & R. Freeman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Research on Employee Voice, Second Edition (2 ed., pp. 474-485). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2020 Tassinari, A., & Donaghey, J. (2020). Social partnership in Europe in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In D. Pohler (Ed.), Source details - Title: Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment (pp. 113-141). US: Cornell University Press.
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.), Source details - Title: Employee voice at work (pp. 113-128). Singapore: Springer.
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2018 Donaghey, J., & Reinecke, J. (2018). Global supply chains and employment relations. In A. Wilkinson, T. Dundon, J. Donaghey, & A. J. S. Colvin (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Routledge companion to employment relations (pp. 342-356). UK: Routledge.
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2018 Wilkinson, A., Dundon, T., Donaghey, J., & Colvin, A. J. S. (2018). Employment relations: Older reflections and new horizons. In Routledge Companion to Employment Relations (pp. 3-19).
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2018 Wilkinson, A., Dundon, T., Donaghey, J., & Colvin, A. J. S. (2018). Employment relations: older reflections and new horizons. In Source details - Title: The Routledge companion to employment relations (pp. 1-17). UK: Routledge.
2016 Donaghey, J. (2016). Trojan horse or tactic? The case for partnership. In S. Johnston, & A. Wilkinson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Developing positive employment relations: international experiences of labour management partnership (pp. 25-47). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2015 Cooke, G. B., Hutchings, D., Donaghey, J., & Zeytinoglu, I. U. (2015). Rural. Beyond deprivation theory: examining rural experience. In T. Boland, & R. Griffin (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Sociology of Unemployment (pp. 90-106). UK: Manchester University Press.
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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 (Ed.), Source details - Title: Global governance of labour rights: assessing the effectiveness of transnational public and private policy initiatives (pp. 257-277). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2014 Wilkinson, A., Dundon, T., Donaghey, J., & Freeman, R. B. (2014). Employee voice: charting new terrain. In A. Wilkinson, J. Donaghey, T. Dundon, & R. Freeman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of research on employee voice (pp. 3-16). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2014 Goyer, M., Reinecke, J., & Donaghey, J. (2014). Globalization and labour market governance. In A. Wilkinson, G. Wood, & R. Deeg (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Oxford handbook of employment relations: comparative employment systems (pp. 1-24). UK: Oxford University Press.
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2014 Cullinane, N., & Donaghey, J. (2014). Employee silence. In A. Wilkinson, J. Donaghey, T. Dundon, & R. Freeman (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of research on employee voice (pp. 398-409). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2014 Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., & Dundon, T. (2014). Legislating for NER? NER and the ICE Regulations at Manufacture Co.. In Source details - Title: Voice and involvement at work: experience with non-union representation (pp. 1-19). UK: Taylor & Francis.
2014 Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., & Dundon, T. (2014). Legislating for NER? NER and the ICE regulations at Manufacture Co.. In P. J. Gollan, B. E. Kaufman, D. Taras, & A. Wilkinson (Eds.), Voice and Involvement at Work Experience with Non Union Representation (pp. 127-145). Routledge.
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2014 Donaghey, J., Cullinane, N., & Dundon, T. (2014). Legislating for NER?: NER and the ICE regulations at manufacture co.. In Voice and Involvement at Work Experience with Non Union Representation (pp. 127-145).
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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 (pp. 121-142). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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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.), Source details - Title: Global anti-unionism: nature, dynamics, trajectories and outcomes (pp. 121-142). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2012 Cullinane, N., & Donaghey, J. (2012). Union and non-union employee representation at BritCo Ireland. In T. Dundon, & A. Wilkinson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Case studies in global management (pp. 222-230). Australia: Tilde University Press.

Year Citation
2007 Donaghey, J., & Teague, P. (2007). The mixed fortunes of Irish unions: Living with the paradoxes of social partnership. In Journal of Labor Research Vol. 28 (pp. 19-41).
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Courses I teach

  • BUSS 3025 International and Comparative Human Resource Management (2025)
  • BUSS 3037 Managing the Employment Relationship (2025)
  • BUSS 3025 International and Comparative Human Resource Management (2024)
  • BUSS 3037 Managing the Employment Relationship (2024)
  • BUSS 3103 International Business Environments (2024)
  • BUSS 5300 Global Business Environment (2024)

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