The purpose of this paper is to explore the domain and trend of public relations research in Taiwan in 1990s. 144 public relations journal articles, theses and dissertations were content-analyzed. The following four issues were examined: research purpose, research topic, theoretical paradigm and research method. Major findings are as followed. First, the number of public relations research has been increasing rapidly within the past ten years, especially in the most recent five years. Second, the research topics include public relations management, public relations practice, professional issues of public relations, and theoretical concepts. The direction of public relations researches, however, was found toward practical-oriented. Third, the management paradigm was the major perspective adopted by the public relations research examined, followed by integrated marketing communication perspective. Last, quantitative method was the dominant manner of data collection (60 percent), followed by qualitative method (30 percent), and triangulation method (10 percent).
中文關鍵詞
公關研究,公關論文,公關學門,趨勢探討,內容分析,台灣,90年代
英文關鍵詞
public relations research,public relations discipline,1990s,Taiwan,content analysis