Profile:
Jonathan Lavelle is a Research Scholar at the Department of Personnel and Employment Relations, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick. He completed his B.A. (Public Administration) in 2003, M.B.S. in Human Resource Management in 2004, and his PhD in 2009. He is a former IRCHSS Post-doctoral fellow and IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar and has previously held the University of Limerick Alumni Scholarship and the Kemmy Business School Registrar's Scholarship.
His main research interests are employment relations in multinational companies, with a particular interest in trade union recognition and avoidance and employee representative issues. He is currently involved in a number of international collaborative research projects, including the 'Survey of Human Resource (HR) Practices in Multinational Companies in Ireland' and 'Multinational corporations, sub-national governance and human resources'. Jonathan has presented papers at a number of leading international conferences and has published articles in the Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of World Business and Irish Journal of Management, as well as co-authoring a book.
Selected Publications
Books
Lavelle, J., McDonnell, A. & Gunnigle, P. (2009) Human Resource Practices in Multinational Companies in Ireland: A Contemporary Analysis, Dublin: The Stationery Office.
Book chapters
Lavelle, J., Gunnigle, P. & McDonnell, A. (2008) Unions on the edge? Industrial Relations in Multinational Companies in Ireland. in Hastings, T. (Ed.) The State of our Unions, Dublin: Liffey Press.
Refereed Journals
Collings, D., McDonnell, A., Gunnigle, P. & Lavelle, J. (2010) "Swimming against the tide: Outward staffing flows from multinational subsidiaries", Human Resource Management [in press].
McDonnell, A., Gunnigle, P. & Lavelle, J. (2010) "Learning transfer in multinational companies: Explaining inter-organisation variation, Human Resource Management Journal, 20 (1), 23-43.
McDonnell, A., Lamare, R., Gunnigle, P. & Lavelle, J. (2010) "Developing Tomorrow's Leaders - Evidence of Global Talent Management in Multinational Companies", Journal of World Business, 45 (2) [in press].
Lavelle, J., Gunnigle, P. & McDonnell, A. (2010) "Patterning employee voice in multinational companies", Human Relations, 63 (3) [in press].
Gunnigle, P., Lavelle, J. & McDonnell, A. (2009) "Subtle but deadly? Union avoidance through 'double breasting' among multinational companies", Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, 16, 51-74.
Lavelle, J. (2008) "Charting the contours of union recognition in foreign-owned MNCs: survey evidence from the Republic of Ireland", Irish Journal of Management, 29 (1), 45-64.
McDonnell, A., Lavelle, J., Collings, D.G. & Gunnigle, P. (2007) "Management research on multinational corporations, a methodological critique", Economic and Social Review, 38 (2), 235-258.
