Animals and Business

An Interspecies Approach to Responsible Management
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-95565-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book explores the role, impact and experiences of animals within organisations and the wider socioeconomic contexts in which they participate.

Animals are vital to business. From agriculture to tourism, logistics to digital media, animals work, reproduce, create value and support livelihoods. Yet business and management theory still largely treats organisations as purely human domains. Animals and Business challenges this view. By introducing an interspecies approach to responsible management, the book explores how animals are not just resources or external ethical concerns, but key actors within organisations and industries. It examines how business practices shape animals' lives and how, in turn, animals influence how value is created and sustained. Each chapter takes an animal-centred approach to a familiar idea such as work, consumption and innovation. Case studies range from broiler chickens in global supply chains to bees in forest honey economies and pain-detection dogs in Nordic healthcare. Developed in dialogue with international scholars, the book’s central claim is simple: Business is better understood, and better practised, when we recognise the animals whose lives and labour are intertwined with it.

This book is essential reading for students and researchers working at the intersection of business studies, animal studies and sustainability.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wadham, Helen

García-Rosell, José-Carlos

Lever, John

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: The Starting Point for an Interspecies Approach  1.  Animals and Sustainable Development  2. Animals and Welfare 3. Animals and Religion  Part II: Animals as Social and Economic Actors  4. Animals and Consumption  5. Animals and Work 6. Animals and Social Media  Part III: Learning with/from Animals about Innovation, Creativity and Diversity  7. Animals and Innovation  8. Animals and Creativity  9.  Animals and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion  Part IV: Animals, Governance and Institutional Frames  10.  Animals and Accounting and Value  11. Animals and Policy and Planning  12. Animals and Company Activism  Part V: Reflections and Implications for the Future  13. Pedagogical Implications  14. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Wadham is a Reader in Sustainability and Head of Doctoral College in the Faculty of Business and Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

José-Carlos García-Rosell is a Professor of Business Ethics in Oulu Business School at the University of Oulu, Finland.

John Lever is a Reader in Sustainable and Resilient Communities in the Faculty of Business and Law at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.