This document provides summaries of articles published in the May 2019 issue of the International Journal of Managing Information Technology. The articles discuss topics such as an IT service management system for the Central Bank of Sudan, lessons from R&D models at Amazon and Finland for balancing R&D expansion and productivity decline, co-evolutionary coupling between captured and uncaptured GDP cycles across economic models, developing an e-commerce consumer-to-consumer model using blockchain techniques, and suggesting a new R&D model via a digital-bio ecosystem.