01565nam a22001457a 4500 530558 530558 250624b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Kandel, India J, Dlouhy, Katja and Schmitt Antje 54679 Animal roles in organizations: A framework for exploring organizational human–animal relations Organization 32(4), May, 2025: p.508-526 Despite the growing body of research on human–animal studies in various disciplines, attempts to systematically include animals in organization studies have been limited. In this article, we build on organizational role theory and propose a typology of five roles of animals in human organizations (i.e., animals as commodities, clients, co-workers, companions, and acquaintances) as a framework for analyzing organizational human–animal relations. The identified roles emerge as distinct categories that illuminate the varying degrees of agency afforded to animals in certain organizational settings and the extent to which human work is focused on animals. Lastly, we outline how advancing scholarly perspectives on animals in organizations requires going beyond anthropocentric and anthropomorphic perspectives and suggest various avenues for future research. Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13505084231217079 Animal agency, animal organization studies, human-animal relations, human animal studies, human-animal work, human-nonhuman relations, organizational role theory 54680 AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 405750 IIPA IIPA 2025-06-24 AR136357 2025-06-24 AR