One of the interesting aspects of Foucault's take on power was that it was constitutive. To put it another way, the company that reclassifies what it does, or

One of the interesting aspects of Foucault's take on power was that it was constitutive. To put it another way, the company that reclassifies what it does, or uses a new taxonomy may actually be trying to change itself by doing so and may succeed. The big difference between the taxonomy a company constructs, and the kind that historians construct, of course is that companies have a real measurable output -- profit -- that they have to achieve.