Animal roles in organizations: A framework for exploring organizational human–animal relations
基于组织角色理论，提出动物在人类组织中扮演的五种角色（商品、客户、同事、伙伴和熟人），为分析组织人与动物关系提供框架，并指出未来研究需超越人类中心主义。
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.