This paper explores new patterns of employment relations in globalizing digital economy based on the PDR systems theory. The theory predicts emergence of new patterns and the possibilities of both high road and low road strategies to attain flexibility in the new environment. The generic principles for the high road strategies are to develop a creative humanware system and balanced PDR systems ...

The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model Most Continental European labour markets and welfare states underwent a substantial transformation over the last two decades moving from a situation of low employment and limited labour market inequality to higher employment, but also more inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pa...