%0 Conference Proceedings %B Proceedings of the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting %D 2008 %T Group Maintenance in Technology-Supported Distributed Teams %A Scialdone, Michael J. %A Li, Na %A James Howison %A Heckman, Robert %A Kevin Crowston %K FLOSS %K Group Maintenance %X 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. %B Proceedings of the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting %C Anaheim, CA, 9-13 August %G eng %> https://floss.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/GroupMaintenance.pdf