Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …

shows that this overall decrease in efforts is almost entirely driven by the reaction of the ex-ante favorite team. …

. The resulting team structure included several offices (subteams) within the same team, defined by the remuneration scheme …. In this paper we analyse the strategic interactions across subteams created by a two-level team structure, in order to … assess whether rewarding collective performance necessarily promotes cooperation. We show that such team structure creates …