Focus group data can also illustrate how participants negotiate values and social norms in a context, in which they are embedded and given meaning (Radley & Billig, 1996).
Because this asset is intangible, the purpose here is to establish benchmarks from which parties and investors can negotiate value.
Understand that compensation for employees, managers, and officers may have been sacrificed to keep costs low, but this sweat equity is only a baseline for negotiating value.
Both parties negotiated good value for money, and RWE can now focus fully on its core business," said RWE AG's chief executive Peter Terium.
He's negotiated the value of the immaterial through an installation that captures and distills a brief, fleeting, but deeply meaningful action, such as a door knock.
Athletic did not want to negotiate, I value that.
"To negotiate a value is a much safer way to go," Mr. Wood said.
In recent years, however, using the courts to negotiate "fair value" has become a full-time industry for investment funds and lawyers looking for a quick score.
Maria, the protagonist of "New People," by Danzy Senna, is caught in a sort of racial fugue: her cold, intricate surrealism reminds me of the plays of Adrienne Kennedy, whose black female characters furiously negotiate the value of truth.
"One person may have contributed more than the other, and there are two sources of that contribution -- whose money paid for it and whose time managed it -- so they can negotiate the value of the renovation," he said.
