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Professor David Collings

Professor David Collings

Professor of Sustainable Business (2021), School Office Trinity Business School

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Biography

David Collings holds the Chair of Sustainable Business at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. He previously held faculty positions at Dublin City University, University of Sheffield and National University of Ireland, Galway and visiting positions at King's College London, Nanyang Business School in Singapore and Cornell University as a Fulbright Scholar. David is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He a former Chair of the HR Division of the Academy of Management. He is a leading international expert on talent management, global mobility and sustainable work. His work has been published in leading international outlets including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management and Personnel Psychology, practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review and he has edited 12 books. A recent Stanford-led study ranked him in the top 2% of scholars globally based on citations impact. David has been named as one of the most influential thinkers in the field of HR years by HR Magazine on five occasions. His work has been cited in media outlets including the BBC, Forbes, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Management and Academy of Management Perspectives and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management Journal, and the Irish Journal of Management. He sits or has sat on the editorial boards of multiple journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Kehoe, R.R., Collings, D.G. & Cascio, W.F., Simply the Best? Star Performers and High Potential Employees: Critical Reflections and a Path Forward for Research and Practice, Personnel Psychology, 76, (2), 2023, p585-615Journal Article, 2023, DOI
  • Collings, D.G., Scullion, H., Morley, M.J., Changing patterns of global staffing in the multinational enterprise: Challenges to the conventional expatriate assignment and emerging alternatives, Journal of World Business, 42, (2), 2007, p198-213Journal Article, 2007, DOI
  • Yseult Freeney, Lisa van der Werff, David G. Collings, I Left Venus and Came Back to Mars: Temporal Focus Congruence in Dyadic Relationships Following Maternity Leave, Organization Science, 33, (5), 2022, p1773-1793Journal Article, 2022, DOI
  • JR Keller and Rebecca R. Kehoe and Matthew Bidwell and David Collings and Adam Myer, In With the Old? Examining When Boomerang Employees Outperform New Hires, Academy of Management Journal, 64, (6), 2021, p1654--1684Journal Article, 2021, DOI
  • Vaiman, V., Scullion, H., Collings, D., Talent management decision making, Management Decision, 50, (5), 2012, p925-941Journal Article, 2012, DOI
  • Conroy, K.M., Collings, D.G., The legitimacy of subsidiary issue selling: Balancing positive & negative attention from corporate headquarters, Journal of World Business, 51, (4), 2016, p612-627Journal Article, 2016, DOI
  • Collings, D.G., Doherty, N., Luethy, M., Osborn, D., Understanding and supporting the career implications of international assignments, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 78, (3), 2011, p361-371Journal Article, 2011, DOI
  • Collings, D.G., McDonnell, A., Gunnigle, P., Lavelle, J., Swimming against the tide: Outward staffing flows from multinational subsidiaries, Human Resource Management, 49, (4), 2010, p575-598Journal Article, 2010, DOI
  • Dick, P., Collings, D.G., Discipline and punish? Strategy discourse, senior manager subjectivity and contradictory power effects, Human Relations, 67, (12), 2014, p1513-1536Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • Collings, D.G., Integrating global mobility and global talent management: Exploring the challenges and strategic opportunities, Journal of World Business, 49, (2), 2014, p253-261Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • Edwards, T., Tregaskis, O., Collings, D., Jalette, P., Susaeta, L., Control over employment practice in multinationals: Subsidiary functions, corporate structures, and national systems, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 66, (3), 2013, p670-695Journal Article, 2013
  • David G. Collings, John McMackin, Anthony J. Nyberg, Patrick M. Wright, Strategic Human Resource Management and COVID"19: Emerging Challenges and Research Opportunities, Journal of Management Studies, 58, (5), 2021, p1378--1382Journal Article, 2021, DOI
  • Kieran M. Conroy, David G. Collings, Johanna Clancy, Sowing the seeds of subsidiary influence: Social navigating and political maneuvering of subsidiary actors, Global Strategy Journal, 2019Journal Article, 2019, DOI
  • David G. Collings, Kamel Mellahi, Wayne F. Cascio, Global Talent Management and Performance in Multinational Enterprises: A Multilevel Perspective, Journal of Management, 45, (2), 2019, p540--566Journal Article, 2019, DOI
  • Mellahi, K., Collings, D.G., The barriers to effective global talent management: The example of corporate élites in MNEs, Journal of World Business, 45, (2), 2010, p143-149Journal Article, 2010, DOI
  • Collings, D.G., Mellahi, K., Strategic talent management: A review and research agenda, Human Resource Management Review, 19, (4), 2009, p304-313Journal Article, 2009, DOI
  • Paula M. Caligiuri, David G. Collings, Helen De Cieri, Mila B. Lazarova, Global Talent Management: A Critical Review and Research Agenda for the New Organizational Reality, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 11, 2024, p393-421 - p393"421Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Philip Rogiers & David G. Collings, The End of Jobs? Paradoxes of Job Deconstruction in Organizations, Academy of Management Perspectives, 38, (2), 2024, p177 - 196Journal Article, 2024, DOI

Research Expertise

Human resource management, Sustainable work, future of work, talent management, global mobility, international HRM.

Recognition

  • Member, Royal Irish Academy
  • Fellow, Trinity College Dublin
  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
  • Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences