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In the legal documents, Dudley Barratt, a manager involved in running the blacklist, said officials in a number of trade unions would "occasionally tell me names of individuals who they thought should not be employed on sites" as they might undermine the firm and the official trade union activities.
The job-hopping can undermine the firm's performance on a contract, he said.
The loss of synergies between its different units would also undermine the firm's vision of providing "seamless mobility" to customers by making more than just handsets.
Hollinger International claims that Lord Black breached his fiduciary duties to other shareholders in several ways, especially by agreeing a deal that would undermine the firm's strategic review and auction of assets.
In an interview, Mr. Piszel said he believes the company is currently undervalued and that the current market capitalization will not undermine the firm's ability to raise money.
But the same system that preserves family control can also undermine the firm over the long term, eventually forcing the family to sell out.
Company insiders have begun arguing that the recent stock declines are the work of duplicitous critics conspiring to undermine the firms.
While the bonds were not by themselves to blame for the collapse of MF Global, the wager unnerved its investors and ratings agencies, further undermining the firm.
If a firm's board of directors sees the boss acting erratically and seriously undermining the firm's long-term interests, it can step in and find a replacement.
Moreover, if a director publicly said during negotiations that the firm could not walk away without an agreement, they would be sacked for undermining the firm's bargaining position.
The new boss of embattled security group G4S has accused the company's former management of "undermining" the firm's values and contributing to a string of high-profile debacles such as last year's notoriously mis-managed Olympics contract.
