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There is a lot of books on this topic.
EDIT: here's a couple good ones:
Free Culture
Here Comes Everybody
or anything by Noam Chomsky or Robert W. McChesney
Despite his silly name, Clay Shirky has written some fascinating articles about the Internet's effect on culture and content, probably the most insightful of anyone I've read. There's one about cognitive surplus, which unfortunately I can't find because he's since written a book called that and reviews of it are drowning out the rest of the results! Here is the TED talk he gave though. Here Comes Everybody is also a great read.
I can make a few general points, yes;
Granted, this experience comes from competitive gaming rather than PvE, and it's not specific to merc work, so perhaps your mileage will vary.
But "organizing the unorganized" is not ever a thing one person can enforce or structure. There's actually a huge amount of sociological work in this area with social media being what it is. (EDIT: Book recommendation, "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky - it set the bar for this kind of thinking.)
The outcome of this is that if you're going for this model, you need team players who haven't found a team and don't want one. That's a heavy, deep contradiction that I just can't see getting mass behind it.
Hm. I hope this is in the arena, but Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody might be of interest to you!
http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/0143114948