Economics, and Information Systems Mini-track at the 2009 hawaii International conference on System Sciences (hIcSS), and to this Special Section. Our first thanks go to the anonymous reviewers of the manuscripts that we developed for hIcSS 2009, and then again for this Special Section. ting li assisted by developing feedback for the authors based on their hIcSS presentations to give them support for the first of their postconference revisions. Juliana tsai also provided detailed editorial suggestions on many of the Special Section papers as we brought them to their final form for publication. We thank Vladimir Zwass for his encouragement and editorial input on the development of this Special Section for the Journal of Management Information Systems.