英文摘要 |
For the past three decades, the number of researches on school marketing was growing rapidly. The research outcomes accumulated is a good resource and worthy of performing an integrated analysis to understand the current status, findings, trends and gaps on the issue of school marketing. 90 papers, published during the period of 1981- 2012 and gathered from EBSCO database, were analyzed by content analysis. It is found that the distribution of school marketing issues is not balanced, including marketing dimension, method used, school level, subject of interest and school nature. Papers gathered are inclined to be qualitative, descriptive, elementary level, non-public or non-private school in nature, unspecified subject, and external marketing. In the future, researchers could put more efforts into the gap which is ignored. According to the comparison between different time periods, this review shows the research trend on school marketing. It is found most of the schools discussed in the papers do not have a complete strategic marketing plan. This question is worthy of paying more attention to and doing some revision, while a school is carrying out marketing planning. |