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During the past decades, countries are paying huge attention on high-tech industry to set up development goals and strategies. As IC industry has brought flourishing economical result to the countries and will sustain its significant development in the next decades, Taiwan IC industry is giving an outstanding contribution to Taiwan economy, and playing a major role in the worldwide IC industry. To make researches on the Taiwan IC industry organizational buying activities will provide some contributions to find out how buyer-seller relationships influence the IC industry organizational buying activities in order to give some references for business people to promote or improve their business strategies.
This study focuses on all firms of Taiwan IC industry and the purposes of this study are as follows: (1) to verify how buyer-seller relationships influences the organizational buying activities, (2) to verify how purchase-related factors influences the organizational buying activities, (3) to identify the linkage between "buyer-seller relationships" and "purchase-related factors", (4) to identify what impact will be if the moderating variables are adding to the influence from buyer-seller relationships to buying activities, (5) to identify what impact will be if the moderating variables are adding to the influence from purchase-related factors to buying activities.
There are total 289 pieces of questionnaire issued in this study, and 75 pieces of questionnaire with 25.95% response rate were analyzed. Results of this study are as follows:
1. Buyer-seller relationships have significant and positive influence on the organizational buying activities.
2. Purchase-related factors have significant and positive influence on the organizational buying activities.
3. Interrelationships among the variables of buyer-seller relationships and purchase-related factors are significant and positive. Moreover, when the uncertainty of purchase is higher, the seller's conflict handling ability is much important.
4. The influence is significant and positive when the moderating variables are involving in the relationships between "buyer-seller relationships" and "organizational buying activities".
5. The influence is significant and positive when the moderating variables are involving in the relationships between "purchase-related factors" and "organizational buying activities".

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