Introduction : reflections on issues in Irish business and society / John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly and Brendan K. O'Rourke -- Labour and employment in Ireland in the Era of the Celtic / Tiger Nicola Timoney -- Politics and economic policy making in Ireland / Frank Barry -- Forming Ireland's industrial development authority / Paul F. Donnelly -- Enterprise discourse : its origins and its influence in Ireland / Brendan K. O'Rourke -- The politics of Irish Social Security Policy 1986-2006 / Mary P. Murphy -- Need the Irish economic experiment fail? / William Kingston -- A review of corporate governance research : an Irish perspective / Niamh M. Brennan -- Corporate social responsibility in Ireland : current practice and directions for future research / Rebecca Maughan -- White-collar crime : the business of crime / Roderick Maguire -- Political corruption in Ireland : a downward spiral / Gillian Smith -- Lobbying regulation : an Irish solution to a universal problem? / Conor McGrath -- A social justice perspective on the Celtic Tiger /Connie Harris Ostwald -- Economic crises and the changing influence of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on public policy / John Hogan -- Partnership at enterprise level in Ireland / Kevin O'Leary -- From Ballymun to Brussels : forms of partnership governance in Irish Social Inclusion Policy / Jesse J. Norris -- People in control : the promise of the co-operative business approach / Olive McCarthy, Robert Briscoe and Michael Ward -- Emotional Intelligence components and conflict resolution / Helen Chen and Patrick Phillips -- Regulatory framework : Irish Employment Law / Mary Faulkner -- Ireland and the European Union : mapping domestic modes of adaptation and contestation / John O'Brennan -- Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland : a changed relationship / Mary C. Murphy -- Cultural tourism development in Irish villages and towns : the role of authenticity, social, cultural and tourist capital / Breda McCarthy -- Twenty-First-Century international careers : from economic to lifestyle migration / Marian Crowley-Henry -- Achieving growth in a regional economy : lessons from Irish economic history / John McHale -- The Europeanisation of Irish public policy : theoretical and comparative perspectives / Kate Nicholls -- Access and expectation : interest groups in Ireland / Gary Murphy -- Civil society in Ireland : antecedents, identity and challenges / Geoff Weller -- The practice of politics : feminism, activism and social change in Ireland / Jennifer K. DeWan -- Alcohol advertising in Ireland : the challenge of responsibility and regulation /Patrick Kenny and Gerard Hastings.

A contemporary exploration of the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationships between business and society in 21st century Ireland that provides the context in which to question and inform our perspectives on both.