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From Kalmar + -ian, after the Swedish city where this approach was used in a Volvo car factory in the 1970s.
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Kalmarian
Today it means: 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. Full definition →