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Team creativity is supposed to determine corporate performance. However, few studies exist about exploring changes in team creativity according to team affect and team leader's network structures in the team. Especially, in the ICT (Information & Communication Technology) industry where hyper-competition exists among companies, such research issue emerges critical in the case of IS (information systems) maintenance teams and IS development teams. Those two kinds of IS teams possess quite a different team characteristics- IS development team is limited by tight schedule and clear performance measure, while IS maintenance team is quite stable in its operation with relatively flexible time schedule. We collected relevant dataset from 50 teams. Results revealed that in the IS development teams, negative group affective tone is positively related to team creativity. In contrast, in the IS maintenance teams, negative group affective tone is negatively related to team creativity. In addition, we found that leaders’ centrality has a negative effect on team creativity, and that leaders’ structural holes have a positive influence on team creativity.