Introduction

Interdisciplinary inquiry incites innovation and ingenuity in a variety of domains, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem is no exception. Integrating research insights and methods from outside disciplines into the science of entrepreneurialism holds the power to build and grow immensely successful startups that can address some of the world’s most pressing challenges. With the ethos that people are the most important element of any startup, this book integrates research and practice from the organizational sciences, especially industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology, to grow an interdisciplinary science of startup success. The chapters of this volume each provide unique methods, tools, and practices to study people as the agents underlying the functioning at various levels of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (i.e., individual entrepreneur and job level, entrepreneurial team and social/environmental context level, and the collective startup and the larger entrepreneurial ecosystem).