Compliance failure is typically framed as a breakdown in execution: inadequate training, isolated error, insufficient oversight, or cultural deficiency. These explanations are familiar, administratively convenient, and often incorrect.
A distinct failure mode occurs when compliance obligations remain legally binding, but the systems responsible for executing them are structurally incapable of
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