HRM and IR in multinational corporations in Denmark: uneasy bedfellows?
Steen E. Navrbjerg, Dana Minbaeva (7 September 2009)
As multinational corporations operate in multiple countries, headquarters must take into account differences in local settings when seeking the means to coordinate and control subsidiaries. The local system of industrial relations sets the framework for what kind of human resource management a multinational corporation can implement. Yet another question is whether the still stronger multinationals can change the existing systems of industrial relations, directly or indirectly.
Polonia in Copenhagen. A study of Polish migrant workers' wage, working and living conditions i Greater Copenhagen
Nana Wesley Hansen, Jens Arnholtz Hansen (28 August 2009)
The group of Polish workers in Greater Copenhagen is a diversified group. A prevalent image of the prototype of a Polish worker is a single young man working in building and construction. This image is nuanced by the survey which shows that there are many other scenarios.
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Delivering employability in a vanguard ‘active’ welfare state: the case of Greater Copenhagen in Denmark
Colin Lindsay, Mikkel Mailand (20 July 2009)
This paper traces the development, implementation, and effectiveness of regional and local labour-market structures in Denmark, particularly focusing on the country's largest region – Greater Copenhagen.
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PhD-course: Labour Market Regulation in Europe - Flexicurity, Integration and Responses to the Crisis
25-27 November 2009, University of Copenhagen
European labour markets face at present an economic crisis that challenges economic and social policies as well as industrial relations systems and companies. This PhD-course will bring together PhD-students and a number of researchers from Denmark and other European countries working on these issues to discuss theoretical, methodological and empirical dimensions of the national responses and their implications for European industrial relations. The course targets all PhD students that work with industrial relations or other labour market related issues.
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The 2010 European Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association
28 June-1 July 2010, University of Copenhagen
FAOS is hosting the 9th European IIRA congress, which will take place 28 June-1 July 2010 in Copenhagen. Both researchers and practitioners are invited to the congress. The theme for the 2010 European congress is "European Employment Relations – Crises and Visions". The congress is organised around four tracks: 1) The diverse labour force – new and old challenges, 2) Workplace relations and HR – back to collectivism?, 3) Employment policies – labour demand, demography and social partners, 4) Regulating employment in Europe – processes, actors and governance.
The call for papers is now open – deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 October 2009.
Flexicurity 
In recent years, international organisations and a number of governments around the world have directed their attention towards the so-called ‘Danish model of flexicurity’ in search for explanations for the combination of strong labour market performance, high tax-level, low inequality and influential labour market organisations seen in this country. The concept of flexicurity - that has a Dutch origin - describes a regulation model that combines flexibility and security in a way that enables a positive development in mobility and employment. However, as the European common principles of flexicurity indicates, there are other roads to flexicurity than those taken by Denmark and the Netherlands.
