This provides a more effective means for prosecuting the worst corporate failures to manage health and safety properly.

Layoffs would be a sign of corporate failure.

The company, with businesses once ranging from foods to electronics, became one of Britain's biggest corporate failures last year.

Now there is evidence that issuing too many options was a cause of corporate failure and skidding stock prices.

Could you get a similar corporate failure over here?

There were numerous reasons for what was termed the biggest corporate failure in Britain at the time:

Business confidence was undermined in 1990 by a series of spectacular corporate failures.

Both could spell the difference between corporate failure and success.

Aside from the dramatic rise and fall of the Nikkei index, corporate failures are at a postwar high.

There in a neat package are symbols of corporate failure, social division and lame political response.