facilitative power

The concept of circuits of power adds detailed dynamic to the power networks . It demonstrates an unequal day to day struggle between business enterprises based on their control of resources. It highlights attempts to achieve certainty and stabilised inequality through ’translation’ and the erecting of ’obligatory passage points’. and it points to new technologies, new work regimes and new forms of discipline as forces of destabilisation. In short, it adds a dynamic tension to the relationships involved in enterprise power networks. Economy environment relationships seen from this power networks perspective are, therefore, in a constant state of flux as patterns and forms of production and consumption change.

Technological change, changing work regimes and changing modes of discipline and regulation (facilitative power), either developed in situ or imported into a community through learning and inward investment, can radically alter the temporarily stable arrangements. The inference, therefore if left to themselves, business enterprise power networks are incapable of acting to ameliorate mounting environmental problems locally and especially globally. If a configuration of obligatory passage points can be created that forces them to adopt environmental sustainability as a goal and performance standard can environmental degradation be curbed.