The strategy of targeting the private sector, to pressure the owners of capital to either withdraw their support for a regime, or else to use their influence to force policy changes, is such a logical and effective approach that it even featured prominently in insurgency training manuals from as far back as 1944.
Utilizing tactics taken largely from those developed by the labor movement, the predecessor to the CIA the Office of Strategic Services taught their operatives techniques of sabotaging businesses from disrupting inter-office communications to “doing everything possible to delay the delivery of orders”, and so on.
Years later, this same strategy continued to be a fundamental guide for destabilizing a regime. The US-backed opposition in Nicaragua mounted a campaign of sabotage against the Sandanista-led government, based upon CIA manuals and training which included things as seemingly minor as damaging office equipment to flushing sponges down office toilets.
Obviously, tactics of greater impact were also taught, and utilized, the point here is that the effective target is, and always has been, private sector power.