Without knowing much about what you reference, this remembers me of the second law of thermodynamics [1], which coined entropy as a general concept for understanding many phenomena.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
The information theory counterpart of entropy seems extremely relevant in describing coordination failures, some forms of stochasticness that aren't necessarily derived from lots of molecules with high degrees of freedoms interacting together. Also might hold high explanatory power in describing why trickle-down/bottom-up and top-down effects are slowly negated and diluted - although I believe this is fuzzy thinking and we need a better tool than just entropy to understand this.
Thanks!