The phrase "a firm contribution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a strong or significant input or support provided by someone in a particular context, such as a project or discussion.
Example: "Her research provided a firm contribution to the overall findings of the study."
Alternatives: "a strong contribution" or "a solid contribution."
Federal rules set a firm contribution schedule, with deadlines and penalties for companies that fall behind.
"Until the IMO CO2 data collection system is up and running, there is insufficient data to determine whether or not it would be realistic for IMO to adopt a firm contribution on behalf of the sector," says a group which includes the Baltic and International Maritime Council, Intercargo and Intertanko in a paper submitted to the IMO.
A similar exercise calibrated for the Spanish economy by Boscá et al. (2009) reduces the share borne by firms to very close to the stylized figure (76 %: a 15%% cut in firm contributions leads to an increase of 11.4 % of real wages).
In doing so, the paper contributes to the field of evolutionary economic geography by introducing a new perspective on entrepreneurial firms' contribution to dynamic regional industrial path development.
Their results showed that the factors that contribute to resilience against systemic risk may also function as significant sources of systemic risk under certain conditions.Hautsch et al. (2015) proposed a systemic risk beta as a measure of financial firms' contributions to systemic risk, given network interdependence between these firms' tail risk exposures.
This research seeks to achieve an in-depth understanding of learning's contribution to a firm's competitiveness by analyzing how organizational learning (OL), understood as a dynamic capability, shapes firms' strategic flexibility and competitive strategy implementation to ultimately improve customer, financial, and market-related performance.
And here's what we found: more than a third of the members of Congress contacted by such a firm also received a campaign contribution from a foreign agent at that firm.
The analysis with CVD mortality, a firm endpoint, suggests a possible contribution to risk.
Environ Health Perspect 123:749–758; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1408692 Because community water systems supply water to > 95% of the approximately 300 million people in the United States, there is a need for a firm understanding of the precise contribution of these water systems to the spread of waterborne disease (Craun et al. 2010; Kozicki et al. 2012).
Their establishment on a firm footing was his most important contribution to gardening practice.
This flow of money is best exemplified by the 11 separate occasions we uncovered in which a firm reported contacting a congressional representative on behalf of Saudi clients on the same day someone at the same firm made a campaign contribution to the same senator or House member.
