Join us for our AoM 2025 PDW Workshop: Multispecies Inclusivity and Animals in Organizing
Academy of Management, Copenhagen 2025
Sunday, July 27, 2025, at 10:30AM - 12:00PM CET at Bella Center in Hall A- A1-m1
Acknowledging that organizations exist within a multispecies world is crucial for advancing sustainability and responding to the current socio-ecological crisis. Multispecies inclusivity involves adopting perspectives that recognize the intrinsic value, standpoint, and interests of nonhuman life. This PDW features an expert panel and roundtable that discusses the inclusivity of nonhuman animals in management and organizational research bringing together scholars interested in the 'animal turn'. Recognizing the limitations of traditional theories in addressing this inclusivity, we aim to explore new avenues for advancing multispecies perspectives to organizing. The first part of the PDW seeks to raise awareness of power structures that marginalise animals, while reimagining alternatives that promote flourishing and justice for more-than-human beings. It aims to expand debates, theories, and practices regarding animals through a critical lens. The second part features facilitated roundtable discussions, designed to foster a collaborative community and encourage joint scholarly efforts in this emerging field. Outputs include discussing a Special Issue in the Journal of Business Ethics on animals.
Schedule
10.30-10.35: Welcome by Linda Tallberg (University of Lapland, Finland)
10.35-11.15: Panel Discussion: topics include multispecies inclusivity, human-animal relations in business, stakeholdership, DEI, sustainability, speciesism, and anthropocentrism.
Panellists: Steffen Böhm (University of Exeter, UK), Astrid Huopalainen (Aalto University, Finland), Doris Schneeberger (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria), José-Carlos García-Rosell (University of Oulu, Finland).
11.15-11.45: Roundtable discussions: delegates map out a SWOT analysis of discussions on animal-related research around the themes of 'theory', 'methodology', 'impact', and 'education'.
Roundtable facilitators: Eline Jammaers (Hasselt University, Belgium), Helen Wadham (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Marjo Siltaoja (Jyväskylä University, Finland), Kate Dashper (Leeds Beckett University, UK).
11.45-12: Final discussion for an output in Journal of Business Ethics SI on animals led by Linda
Sponsors: CMS, ONE, SIM, OMT, RM
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Linda Tallberg, PhD
Senior lecturer
The Multidimensional Tourism Institute (MTI)/ Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Lapland
Rovaniemi, Finland
Email:
linda.tallberg@ulapland.fi------------------------------