Sometimes the biggest challenge that leads to business shutdown isn't from external competitions around the business environment but from within the workforce.
A business person who owns a company must ensure to have internal control and structure in your organisation. With a functional internal control, employees display best practices, discipline and solemnity with how they dispose their jobs, resume and attend to work on time etc. Internal financial theft and misconduct are detected asap, then reducing the risk of collapse of the organisation from internally which are related with employee fraud.
You are very correct. Your business may not fail as a result of competitors, but as a result of criminal activities of employees working in your company. However, it is important to treat your employees as partners, give them their entitlement, salary and allowances should be given as at when do, and also ensure you pay them well to avoid employees from stealing, and more also, ensure their is regular auditing of every department in your company to know if things are going smoothly or not.
If you discover any act of misbehaviour from any employee, do not hesitate to punish the person accordingly, by so doing other employees will learn their lessons and remain cautious while working with your company. Many factors can make an employee misbehave, as the CEO of the company, find out those things that make employees to misbehave and correct them, by so doing employees will work productively and in accordance with your directives and company policies.
In a developing country it's highly likely that your business will fall due to criminal activities more than result of competitors, from the little ones that I have witnessed, Many businesses have failed due to result of this.
There is also this virus that's affecting people in my country, they like to copy others business idea, they lack the potential of self thinking and starting up a business that's not common on their own, they prefer doing what others are doing and this have rendered many useless.
But most of the time it's always someone greedy on the inside stealing the company's money, I also happen to know one ot two people that have build houses and have cars out of working under a company and milking the hell out of the company.