But this is the critical time and this is the critical debate to be having.
For the critical debate on this point, see Talen (2002, 2003), Thompson-Fawcett and Bond (2003), Richardson and Gordon (2004) and Moore and Wilson (2009).
First, this paper contributes to the critical debate on current trends in accounting research and on the risk of homogeneity triumphing on a global scale (e.g. Hopwood 2007; Khalifa and Quattrone 2008; Lukka 2010) and follows the appeals voiced by Hopwood (2008) to sustain debate on the issues at stake.
For the critical debate on this point and discussion on empirical evidence, see for instance Desrochers (2001a), Storper and Manville (2006), Thomas and Darnton (2006), Desrochers and Leppälä (2011a, 2011b), Syrett and Sepulveda (2011), Kemeny (2012), Nathan (2015) and Rodriguez-Pose and Hardy (2015).
The relevance of tacit knowledge and proximity spillovers has been widely recognised also in the recent economic literature; for the critical debate on this issue, see for instance Kirat and Lung (1999), Howells (2002), Lever (2002), Malmberg and Maskell (2002), Simmie (2002), Bathelt et al. (2004), Cook et al. (2007), Sonn and Storper (2008) and Gabe and Abel (2011).
This study aims to investigate the critical debate in corporate governance research concerning the boundary of the efficacy of the corporate governance mechanism.
We must have that critical debate, but we must get through this period first.
That instinct faces its most decisive test in the critical debate over a new constitution.
Yet an artist's perspective is clearly useful to the critical debate.
