"benchmark firms" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to refer to a group of comparison companies, or companies which are used to measure the performance of a particular firm. For example, you could say, "Our company is working to exceed the performance of the benchmark firms."
The results indicate that, relative to the benchmark firms, telecommunications firms strengthened the (negative) tie between managerial compensation and peer performance after the Act.
It also examines the key normative benchmarking theory premise that firm capabilities associated with sustained financial performance can be identified and that a firm's capability gaps, defined herein as the capability gaps between the firm and the selected benchmark firms (e.g., Camp, 1995), explain its financial performance.
Lastly, this study shows how to use profile deviation to benchmark firm capabilities and extends this methodology by employing a model that incorporates interdependencies among firm capabilities.
This evidence of IDA's key role in the discursive and practical construction of market behaviour shows IDA acting as a market-maker - being the first big independent player - and as a benchmark firm and beneficial competitor in the market as it evolved.
The group runs management-training courses, benchmarks firms against international standards and establishes codes of conduct.
Roger Aitken is an associate analyst at the benchmarking firm BISS Research in London.
Global Reviews, the customer experience benchmarking firm, assessed 12 of the leading offshore bank websites against 176 different criteria, including how easy the site is to find on Google, the quantity and quality of the information provided, and access channels such as inquiry forms, call back services and online chat.
This paper shows how stochastic frontier panel techniques can be used by economic regulators to benchmark regulated firms against international best practice.
With the help of the WHO, the alliance will help companies design a "business plan" for health, identifying local public-sector partners and working out budgets and benchmarks for firms to gauge their performance.
Genentech says it set the archive period for its Web site by benchmarking other firms of its size.
In the VRS DEA model, N1'λ = 1 is added to show a convexity constraint which ensures that an inefficient firm is only benchmarked against firms of a similar size.
