This study aims at Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturers to sample the use of hazardous substances in mobile phone manufacturers. This study is mainly to analyze the key factors affecting the use of RoHS process technology for mobile phone electronics manufacturers based on the TOE model. By using three critical constructs, including "Technological context", Organizational context (Environmental context) and "Environment context", the potential in-fluential relations can be hypothesized and further be confirmed with RoHS process materials adoption. In order to confirm these path relations and validate the proposed model, collected data are analyzed by PLS-SEM approach.
This paper discusses the key factors affecting the process materials of mo-bile phone electronics manufacturers using RoHS, and use Smart PLS software as a tool for SEM analysis. The empirical model has been verified the effec-tiveness in this research and the proposed model explains the key factors af-fecting the process materials used by mobile phone electronics manufacturers to use RoHS based on good predicting rate of 62%. In addition, the path coefficient analysis significantly affects the key factors of mobile phone electronics man-ufacturers using RoHS process materials: the organizational background (5.264) is more significant followed by environmental background (2.273) and techno-logical background (1.993). This result can also be used as a basis for future research on process materials using RoHS in mobile phone electronics manu-facturers.
In addition to above contributions, there are several limitations existing in this research. First, this study used TOE model based there main constructs to explore the adopting behavior of RoHS. In the future, related studies can further
extend TOE model by incorporating different constructs such as safety and privacy constructs. Second, the model does not explore the interference varia-bles in the process materials used by mobile phone electronics manufacturers using RoHS, such as gender, age, and the company’s industry. Finally, this model needs to be further examined and validated in different countries and similar product production for the generalizability and robustness.
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第二部份:目前手機電子廠使用 RoHS 的製程材料包括: RoHS 的製程技術、