Denmark: Tailoring Flexicurity for Changing Roles in Global Games

By giving an historical account of the Danish business system, this chapter offers an alternative interpretation to how Danish flexicurity operates. The argument is that employees, unions, and vocational training institutions take a much more activist role than is usually observed. This argument is then justified, first, by giving an account of general Danish industrial developments and innovation patterns, and secondly, by studying how Danish firms strategize, organize, and relate to global economic processes. The case studies provide evidence that firms and labour-market institutions have simultaneously been changed in many different ways locally. Entirely new ways of working have opened for taking on new, advanced roles in the new global economy, making inclusion of all employee groupings possible.