CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES Conference Symposia Abstracts.

This section presents abstracts of several studies related to critical management. Celia R. Taylor considered various facets of corporate social responsibility. Linda McGuire and colleagues focused on the transference and adoption or adaptation of marketing approaches into public and non-profit management. Joao Vieira Cunha and colleagues broadened the reflection on paradox by examining it from a theoretical and practical viewpoint and by addressing the necessity to build new theoretical frameworks for exploring it; the relevance of dialectics as an integrative approach for the study and analysis of paradox; and paradox in science. Anne-Elizabeth Ross-Smith examined liberal and radical feminist approaches in the field of organization studies as well as their practical implications. Ann L. Cunliffe explored the relationship between democracy and knowledge. Philip H. Mirvis developed a number of propositions about negative and positive individual actions and organizational practices based on the assumption that emotional pain occurs and is inevitable in organizations. Naomi R. Olson and colleagues provided a forum for stepping back from the imperative to find solutions to reflect on some of the origins, influences, and effects of efforts to define and enact sustainability.