The Network structure helps to to know what has changed in the external environment (PESTLE Factors) that are uncontrollable but can be managed by aligning the organization's strategy with the environmental factors and to those factors that are internal to organization. So these acknowledgement of changes in the environment in which the organization helps to adapt the changes using the social systems which is interconnection of suppliers, customers, customer behavior changes analysis, iterdependence of departments on each other. Such a system which exists which helps in managing risks is known as Network Structure.
The reason why Zinn opined that we shouldn't trust histories written from point of view of Governments and leaders is that they tend to use attempts through politics and culture, to ensnare ordinary people in a giant web of nationhood hiding under the canopy of common interest.