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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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Christopher McMahon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management (Princeton, 1994), Professor McMahon wrote Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning (Cambridge, 2001) and has published widely in the area of moral and political philosophy. His work has appeared in Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs and the Journal of Philosophy, among other journals. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
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McMahon, C. Comments On Hsieh, Moriarty and Oosterhout. J Bus Ethics 71, 371–379 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-006-9147-9
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