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ROBAYO ACUNA, PAULA VIVIANA; MONTOYA RESTREPO, ALEXANDRA  e  CASTELLANOS DOMINGUEZ, OSCAR. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LIFE SCIENCES TO MANAGEMENT THEORY. Rev.fac.cienc.econ. [online]. 2011, vol.19, n.1, pp.175-192. ISSN 0121-6805.

Biological metaphors have been applied to organizational management models, however, a bibliometrical monitoring of these contributions needs to be done with the purpose of articulating such information. The objective of this paper is to outline the results to establish the state of art, approaches and contributions of biological models application development in administrative sciences. From the obtained results, it was found that there is a strong positioning of biological concepts application in the implementation of productive processes as a form to manage production efficiently. Additionally, the generation of comparing is related to organization forms of the environment to be applied in organizational structures. However, the analysis made shows that publication dynamic on biosciences contribution to management has a lot potential and has been conceptually diverse.

Palavras-chave : Organizational metaphor; biological metaphor; organizational management models.

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