Actually, these perturbations act as mutation experiments that can make the economic organism more fit for epochal cycles. These are examples of self-organizing systems. In the business world we see experiments with empowerment, teaming, listening to the voice of the customer, organizational learning, and other concepts as movements toward self organization - though not necessarily with that end in mind. Instead it is a process of system transformation that is self-generating. A concept sweeping the corporate cultures of the world, and generally misunderstood.
Real teams emerge out of the process of self-organization.
To be sure, the emergence of greater coordination and coherence in a system is similar to cohesive teamwork. A close look at self-organization, though, reveals that emergent coherence is not based on a premature consensus among the parts of the system, but is, instead, the result of the amplification of differences in the system. Read him for the examples. Read him for the secret. Chaos theory sounds like something that should explain the workings of today's organizations.