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David G. Collings

David G. Collings

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Business and Management
Ireland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
50
Citations
14672
World Ranking
977
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

David G. Collings is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a strong focus on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Their research spans related subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Communication, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work addresses several main topics such as Human Resource and Talent Management, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Employer Branding and e-HRM, International Student and Expatriate Challenges, Labor Market and Education, Gender Diversity and Inequality, and Higher Education and Employability.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Academy of Management Proceedings, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, Human Resource Management, and The Irish Journal of Management.

Among recent papers authored by David G. Collings are:

  • Strategic Human Resource Management and COVID-19: Emerging Challenges and Research Opportunities (2021, Journal of Management Studies)
  • Leading through paradox in a COVID-19 world: Human resources comes of age (2021, Human Resource Management Journal)
  • Navigating the shifting landscapes of HRM (2021, Human Resource Management Review)
  • Global work in a rapidly changing world: Implications for MNEs and individuals (2022, Journal of World Business)
  • Toward a broader understanding of career shocks: Exploring interdisciplinary connections with research on job search, human resource management, entrepreneurship, and diversity (2021, Journal of Vocational Behavior)

David G. Collings has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including John McMackin, Anthony J. Nyberg, Patrick M. Wright, Wayne F. Cascio, and Rebecca R. Kehoe.

They have been recognized by their peers and awarded distinctions such as Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2020 and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Strategic talent management: A review and research agenda

    David G. Collings;Kamel Mellahi

  • Changing patterns of global staffing in the multinational enterprise : challenges to the conventional expatriate assignment and emerging alternatives

    David G. Collings;Hugh Scullion;Michael J. Morley

  • Global talent management: introduction

    Hugh Scullion;David G. Collings

  • Global Talent Management

    Hugh Scullion;David G Collings

  • Valuing customers

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  • Talent management decision making

    Vlad Vaiman;Hugh Scullion;David Collings

  • The barriers to effective global talent management: The example of corporate élites in MNEs

    Kamel Mellahi;David G. Collings

  • Human resource management : A critical approach

    David G. Collings;Geoffrey T. Wood

  • Integrating global mobility and global talent management: Exploring the challenges and strategic opportunities

    David G. Collings

  • Enhancing the role of human resource management in corporate sustainability and social responsibility: A multi-stakeholder, multidimensional approach to HRM

    Günter K. Stahl;Chris J. Brewster;Chris J. Brewster;David G. Collings;Aida Hajro

  • Global talent management

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  • Global Talent Management and Performance in Multinational Enterprises: A Multilevel Perspective:

    David G. Collings;Kamel Mellahi;Wayne F. Cascio

  • Talent management: a systematic review and future prospects

    Anthony McDonnell;David G. Collings;Kamel Mellahi;Randall Schuler

  • European perspectives on talent management

    David G. Collings;Hugh Scullion;Vlad Vaiman

  • Global staffing: a review and thematic research agenda

    David G. Collings;Hugh Scullion;Peter J. Dowling

  • SEVEN MYTHS OF GLOBAL TALENT MANAGEMENT

    Dana Minbaeva;David G. Collings

  • Toward Mature Talent Management: Beyond Shareholder Value

    David G. Collings

  • International human resource management in the 21st century: emerging themes and contemporary debates

    Hugh Scullion;David G. Collings;Patrick Gunnigle

  • Talent management: Progress and prospects

    David G. Collings;Hugh Scullion;Vlad Vaiman

  • Strategic Human Resource Management and COVID-19: Emerging challenges and research opportunities

    David G. Collings;John McMackin;Anthony J. Nyberg;Patrick M. Wright

  • Managing talent in knowledge‐intensive settings

    Eoin Whelan;David G. Collings;Brian Donnellan

  • Leading through paradox in a COVID-19 world: Human resources comes of age

    David G. Collings;Anthony J. Nyberg;Patrick M. Wright;John McMackin

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Scullion
Hugh Scullion University of Hull
Michael J. Morley
Michael J. Morley University of Limerick
Patrick Gunnigle
Patrick Gunnigle University of Limerick
Kamel Mellahi
Kamel Mellahi University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Geoffrey Wood
Geoffrey Wood University of Western Ontario
Randall S. Schuler
Randall S. Schuler Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul Sparrow
Paul Sparrow Lancaster University
Mehmet Demirbag
Mehmet Demirbag University of Essex
Ekrem Tatoglu
Ekrem Tatoglu Gulf University for Science & Technology
Chris Brewster
Chris Brewster University of Reading

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