Group Maintenance in Technology-Supported Distributed Teams

Publication Type:

Conference Proceedings

Source:

Proceedings of the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 9-13 August (2008)

Keywords:

FLOSS, Group Maintenance

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.

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