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Kalmarian
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English
Etymology
From en Kalmar ian, after the Swedish city where this approach was used in a Volvo car factory in the 1970s.
Adjective
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en economics Being or relating to a labour paradigm involving a mutualization of the responsibility for employment (among businesses, unions, government, etc.) and relatively little hierarchical structure.