Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the corporate social responsibility strategies used by the wives association of the army, the navy, the air force and the police as well as to study the perception and acknowledgement of mass media about the wives associations social responsibility activities. This study is composed of 2 parts including firstly, the qualitative part using in-depth interviews together with literature reviews and secondly, the quantitative part using sets of questionnaires with the sample of target population. The first part was a qualitative research. The result of the study shows that the wives associations social activities could be divided into 2 dimension; activities for members of the association, and activities for public society. The association used social responsibility activities as an image building strategy in four areas including connecting activities with the monarchy, driving responsibility in inside-out fashion, focusing on real social-benefit activities, and networking among common interest groups. The second part was a quantitative research. The result of the study shows that mass media acknowledged mostly the activities of the army and the police wives associations with same average scores, followed by the awareness of such activities of the air force wives association and the navy wives association respectively. In addition, mass media recognized the image of the army wives association at the highest level, better than other wives associations; the navys, the air forces, and the polices wives association respectively.