Abstract

MONTOYA RESTREPO, LUZ ALEXANDRA; MONTOYA RESTREPO, IVÁN ALONSO  and  CASTELLANOS DOMINGUEZ, OSCAR FERNANDO. ORGANIZATIONAL METAPHOR: ALTERNATIVE OF UNDERSTANDING FROM OTHER SCIENCES. Rev.fac.cienc.econ. [online]. 2010, vol.18, n.1, pp. 75-86. ISSN 0121-6805.

This document establishes how metaphoric processes allow translating concepts from a science to another. This process results interesting to create new implementations which allows a better understanding of organizations study complexity. A review through metaphor concept is made in order to get to implementations used in management. This paper states a theoretical approach to understand management disciplines and their relation to other sciences.

Keywords : Organization management; organizational metaphor; administrative sciences; interdisciplinary.