Sentence examples for firm failure from inspiring English sources

Performance measures defined are revenue, venture capital funding, total funds raised, firm failure, graduation and remaining in the incubator.

Indeed, there is growing anecdotal evidence that firms' inabilities to cope with emerging technologies have produced high product and firm failure rates.

The problems most of scholar and practitioners face whenever it is questioned to define, understand, or prevent firm failure start with the definition of insolvency and its differentiation with bankruptcy.

According to the literature, the variables that explain firm failure can be grouped into four broad categories: (1) firm specific, (2) industry specific, (3) macro-economic, and (4) spatial or geographic factors (Maoh & Kanaroglou [2007]).

The media often feeds on that approach, as recent Solyndra headlines make clear: "Lawmakers accuse Solyndra execs of ripping off taxpayers" (The Washington Post); "Solar firm failure casts doubt on fed loan program" (Phoenix Business Journal GOPGOP hammers Solyndra, Obama White House" (USA Today).

If this type of environment continues, we may see additional firm failures.

Compared with some of the travel firm failures we saw last year, the damage should be limited.

There may be further travel firm failures along the lines of Goldtrail and Sun4U, especially as we move out of summer.

The claim is also reviewed online by staff at the Securities Investors Protection Corporation, the industry-financed agency chartered by Congress to oversee brokerage firm failures.

"We believe," Stephen P. Harbeck, the president of SIPC, told me this week, "that rigorous pursuit of people responsible for brokerage firm failures sends a very important message".

Indeed, one argument used to deny many investors' claims in the Stratton Oakmont case, if applied to all brokerage firm failures, would disqualify millions of investors from S.I.P.C. coverage even though their brokerage firms are members of the organization.