Abstract
Japan Society for Management Information (JASMIN) was established when the Japan
Society forManagement Informatics (JASMIN) and Association forManagement Information (AMI)
were merged in 1992, with a scope of researches into utilization technology of information technology
(IT). The article describes its brief history, as well as the positioning and the status of the Society
vis-`a-vis other academic societies in the related fields, the society in general and the international
community in the field, in particular Association for Information Systems (AIS) and International
Conferences on Information Systems (ICIS).
