Kalmarian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Kalmar +‎ -ian, after the Swedish city where this approach was used in a Volvo car factory in the 1970s.

Adjective[edit]

Kalmarian (not comparable)

  1. (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.