Isn't the idea of having volunteer super-employees exceeding the regular production literally Stakhanovism?
Most organisations above Dunbar's number have some level of unacknowledged problems in the "formal" system. It ends up not being as productive as the formal figures would indicate. So people use the informal system to back-fill their quotas. This means the informal system isn't available to increase visible-to-management production, because it's already being used to make up for the deficiencies of the formal system.