Corporate responsibility" refers to the actions taken by businesses to nurture and enhance this symbiotic relationship. Of course, societies can also act to nurture this relationship by providing such services as law enforcement, investment in the many public goods used by business and appropriate regulation and by financing these activities via a well designed, disciplined system of public finance. If the actions of both business sectors and societies are successful, then the "fit" between the two helps to foster an atmosphere of mutual trust and predictability that facilitates the conduct of business and enhances economic, social and environmental welfare.