A number of authors have suggested that macroeconomic factors impact significantly on the incidence of financial distress, and subsequently on corporate failure. However, macroeconomic factors rarely, if ever, appear as variables in predictive models seeking to identify distress and failure; the...

A considerable body of research aims to discriminate between companies with the potential to stem decline, or recover from extremis, from those which will ultimately fail. The literature spans a number of academic disciplines and embraces theorising, case studies and anecdote. Even so much...