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The public authority of the managers of private organizationsIn George G. Brenkert & Tom L. Beauchamp (eds.), The Oxford handbook of business ethics, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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7The corruption of play: mapping the ideological play-space of AAA videogamesEmerald Publishing. 2022.AAA videogames often offer expansive experiences to the millions who engage with the medium, but they are vulnerable to disruption from neoliberal structures. The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play. Providing a cutting-edge and innovative approach to this pro…Read more
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3Works citedIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 293-302. 1994.
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10The Ontological and Moral Status of OrganizationsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 5 (3): 541-554. 1995.The paper has two parts. The first considers the debate about whether social entities should be regarded as obiects distinct from their members and concludes that we should let the answer to this question be determined by the theories that social science finds to have the most explanatory power. The second part argues that even if the theory with the most explanatory power regards social entities such as organizations as persons in their own right, we should not accord them citizenship in the mo…Read more
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10Two Modes of Collective BeliefProtoSociology 18 347-362. 2003.Margaret Gilbert has defended the view that there is such a thing as genuine collective belief, in contrast to mere collective acceptance. I argue that even if she is right, we need to distinguish two modes of collective belief. On one, a group’s believing something as a body is a matter of its relating to a proposition, as a body, in the same way that an individual who has formed a belief on some matter relates to the proposition believed. On the other, a group’s believing something as a body i…Read more
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1PrefaceIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. 1994.
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1One: IntroductionIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-22. 1994.
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3Comments On Hsieh, Moriarty and OosterhoutJournal of Business Ethics 71 (4): 371-379. 2007.A response to the discussants, Nien-hê Hsieh, Jeffrey Moriarty and J. (Hans) van Oosterhout, who took part in the March, 2005 symposium “The Political Theory of Organizations: A Retrospective Examination of Christopher McMahon’s Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management” held in San Francisco as part of the Society for Business Ethics Group Meeting at the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association.
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5Christopher McMahon, Authority and Democracy (review)Journal of Business Ethics 17 (11): 1243-1245. 1998.
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10Review of Robert C. Solomon: Ethics and excellence: cooperation and integrity in business (review)Ethics 104 (4): 911-913. 1994.
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Public Capitalism: The Politcal Authority of Corporate ExecutivesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press. 2012.In a modern capitalist society, the senior executives of large profit-seeking corporations play an important role in shaping the collective life of the society as a whole. In this sense, they exercise social authority. This his book argues that if such authority is to be accepted as legitimate, it must be understood as a form of political authority that is exercised in concert with the authority of governments
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4Expression Arguments in EthicsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 69 (4): 325-341. 1988.Rawls and Nagel have suggested as a reason to act as morality requires is that we thereby express our nature as free and equal persons. The paper attempts describe the logic of such claims
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10OpennessCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1). 1990.Common sense morality contains a concept of openness and accords positive value to behavior that exemplifies it. But it is unclear what morally valuable openness is and what sort of value it has in ordinary moral thinking.
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8Review of Gerald F. Gaus: Justificatory liberalism: an essay on epistemology and political theory (review)Ethics 107 (3): 515-517. 1997.
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14Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management (edited book)Princeton University Press. 1994.Should the democratic exercise of authority that we take for granted in the realm of government be extended to the managerial sphere? Exploring this question, Christopher McMahon develops a theory of government and management as two components of an integrated system of social authority that is essentially political in nature. He then considers where in this structure democratic decision making is appropriate. McMahon examines the main varieties of authority: the authority of experts, authority …Read more
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6FrontmatterIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. 1994.
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5IndexIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 303-310. 1994.
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1ContentsIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. 1994.
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2Five: DemocracyIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 128-166. 1994.
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4Eight: Managerial authority as c-authorityIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 231-257. 1994.
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2Two: AuthorityIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 25-51. 1994.
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2Three: Moral principles and social factsIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 52-84. 1994.
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1Four: The justification of authorityIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 85-127. 1994.
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1Nine: Managerial democracyIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 258-292. 1994.
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7Seven: Managerial authority as p-authoritvIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 194-230. 1994.
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5Six: Management and moralityIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 169-193. 1994.
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