JAPAN INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

COPYRIGHT TRANSFER and PAGE-CHARGE AGREEMENT FORM

This signed statement must be submitted to theeditorial board of the Journal of Japan Industrial Management Association (JIMA) when submittinga manuscript. Please complete and sign this form for original papers or research letters submitted to JIMA for the first time.

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A. Copyright Transfer

All copyrights of the above manuscript, including rights for publishing in any media, shall be transferred to JIMA.All authors hereby agree to the following items.

(1)Copyrights (all rights stipulated in the provisions of Articles 21 through 28 in the Japanese copyright laws) are hereby transferred to JIMA.

(2)This work or a substantially similar work has not been published elsewhere and is not currently being considered for publication in any other language.

Note: This does not include materials published in the JIMA Conference Paper, JIMA Technical Meeting Paper or other JIMA sponsored or co-sponsored meeting papers.

(3)This work shall not infringe upon the rights of any third party. In the case of the author(s) using copyrighted materials in his/her work, written permission from the copyright holder(s) shall be obtained by the author(s) prior to submission and provided to JIMA free of charge.

(4)All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work shall appear as authors.

(5)An agreement for publication shall be obtained when necessary from a person with the appropriate authority in any organization to which the author(s) belongs.

The author(s) reserves the following rights:

All proprietary rights other than copyrights, such as patent rights

Re-use of all or part of the paper for his/her curriculum vitae

The right to make copies for his/her own purposes if other than for commercial use

The right to use the paper for purposes not in violation of the Japanese copyright laws

In the event that a decision is made not to publish the paper or article,the copyright transfer form will become invalid at the time of the decision not to publish the document.

B. Page Charge Agreement

Please note that the author(s) or the author’s company/institution must pay the page-charge for the above manuscript according to the table of publication charges of JIMA. The page-charge amount shall be determined after the above-mentioned manuscript is accepted for publicationvia a review process.

The author(s) will be liable for the page-charge even if the manuscript is withdrawn by the author(s) or becomes invalid after acceptance.

I hereby agree to the copyright transfer and page-charge described above.

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JIMA Secretariat, 4-4-19, Takadanobaba, Shinjuku, 169-0075, Japan

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