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Abstract   Metaphoric language has grown in popularity over the last years.  Once simple figure of speech, metaphors were transformed into a respectable approach for organizational analysis. The brain metaphor constitutes an attractive system of ideas for studying organizational phenomena.  In this paper, it is used the brain metaphor as a point of departure in developing another informational metaphor: the network metaphor.  It is suggested that the latter might provide a better perspective for studying contemporary organizations in this age of information and telecommunications.

Keywords:   metaphor, brain metaphor, information, network metaphor. 

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