Sweden is a too-egalitarian, too-democratic hell on earth overrun by out-of-control children, thanks to thirty-year-old ban on smacking kids, which was adult humankind's only non-nuclear option for keeping those little monsters in check.
But it will all be OK, because both IKEA and H&M have relatively flat management structures.
I assume that the 1,800+ comments on this article are all questioning the relevance of this conclusion, if not the entire premise.
Fears of 'brat-ocracy' in child-centered Sweden [yahoo/afp via dt reader sara]