Ludwig von Mises wrote extensively about how the organizational structure fails in his writings dating back to the 1930s-1950s.
There's a slightly indirect reference to it in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, with regards to the 20th Century Motor Corporation's fall.
The associated writings by Mises are largely aggregated in book form today under the title "Socialism", published by the Liberty Fund, for those that care to read first-hand.
While these system structures fail, they can do so quite slowly, especially if any kind of money-printing/non-reserve debt issuance is occuring (leveraging the currency through inflation as a whole to prolong the isolated system parasitically). When they do fail, the failures include properties of mathematical chaos, preventing differentiation or isolation of issues in time to act and resolve.
There are also issues with objective valuation that touch on other fundamental failure domains also described in said book.
It sounds like a huge group of coordinated freelancers.