Abstract:

Companies have become more international with the trend of globalization of the 21st century. Globalization and internationalization also bring many discussions about the field. The internationalization and performance relationships of companies have gained importance with the concepts of cultural diversity. Different disciplines such as industrial and organizational psychology, industrial social services, labor economics conduct studies on the effects of globalization and internationalization. Studies are often focused on topics of the process of internationalization and/or globalization, the impact of the process on the performance of the company. This article approaches the company’s internationalization trend and the performance relationship based on inter-cultural diversity with the focus of industrial-organic psychology. The study included the titles 'Industrial and organizational psychology views on corporate performance and internationalization, cross-cultural diversity in companies, cross-cultural diversity and internationalization in corporate performance, cross-cultural diversity and performance'. According to literature, it seems that there is not yet a direct or stable relationship between internationalization and company performance, taking into account the effects of intercultural diversity on the performance of companies. According to studies, between internationalization and performance is a positive, negative, U-shaped relationship, a reverse U-shaped relationship, a S-shaped relationship, and a meaningless directional relationship. In light of the academic studies carried out on the field, the impact of the internationalization trend and the company’s performance relationship is proportionally continuous due to a variety of interfering factors in time and contextual sense. In particular, some of these various intervening factors are the quality and internationalization strategy of the company from the perspective of industrial and organizational psychology in literature. According to the study, the need for the study of industrial/organic psychology in accordance with the study and the theory and research-based literary studies is highlighted and the need for the study of the concept of intercultural diversity in terms of research that focuses on organizations in the sense of performance and other variables. In this sense, it is believed that the work will keep light on the advanced work in the field in the future.

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