The phrase "a set of firms" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a collection or group of companies that share a common characteristic or are involved in a specific industry.
Example: "The study analyzed a set of firms in the technology sector to determine their impact on innovation."
Alternatives: "a group of companies" or "a collection of businesses".
The study examines forms of organisation in a set of firms across application segments.
One way to think about this is to imagine that investment decisions are increasingly on autopilot: more and more money will pour into a set of firms largely independent of the considerations that have traditionally guided investors, such as supply, demand, management performance, growth potential, or broader economic factors.
The study started with a workshop aimed at selecting case firms that engage two large forwarders and a set of firms highly dependent on foreign trade.
Even founders who have dozens of venture connections are interested in applying to become an angel investor with a set of firms whom they may have never met before.
Their main purpose consists firstly to identify explanatory variables of default and to estimate their contribution, estimating the coefficients that make it possible to accurately classify a set of firms in two a priori defined categories.
The hybrid workloads consist of a set of firm-deadline timing-centric applications and a set of soft-deadline throughput-centric multithreaded applications.
And on the other fringe of the debate, Polly Toynbee of the Guardian deplores suggesting that marriage is in some way better than cohabitation.But the document is after all a consultation document, not a set of firm proposals.
The ANC's election manifesto, which reads more like a wish list than a set of firm pledges, is too vague to indicate exactly what direction the new government will take.
In 1976, under pressure from both sides, Governor Jerry Brown, a moderate Democrat, signed a law mandating "determinate" sentences in California: from then on, judges would choose from a set of firm sentences for each crime, stripping power from fickle and possibly racist parole boards.
Only in an environment where the providers of the underlying networks insist upon the use of a single, secure technology, can one have a set of firm foundations.
We define an extended notion of oblivious equilibrium that we call partially oblivious equilibrium (POE) that allows for there to be a set of "dominant firms", whose firm states are always monitored by every other firm in the market.
