@proceedings{6650, keywords = {Group Maintenance, FLOSS}, author = {Michael Scialdone and Na Li and James Howison and Robert Heckman and Kevin Crowston}, title = {Group Maintenance in Technology-Supported Distributed Teams}, abstract = {Are geographically-distributed teams which exhibit high levels of group maintenance between members successful? We answer this through content analysis of emails from two Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) teams. Our results illustrate that the groups utilize low levels of organizational citizenship behaviors and high levels of positive politeness actions.}, year = {2008}, journal = {Proceedings of the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting}, address = {Anaheim, CA, 9-13 August}, language = {eng}, }