6.5 PARTICIPATION RIGHTS
If, like political authority, managerial authority ought to be constrained by due process rights, we should ask if it makes sense to extend the analogy further. Let us return to the distinction between power and authority to consider the ques¬tion of managerial authority. Our discussion of due process assumed the legiti¬macy of managerial authority and focused on the limitations of that authority. In this section we ask perhaps a more fundamental question: What gives business owners and managers authority, rather than mere power, over employees?