Interrelated agencies in an animal-centred organisation: the case of hunting with hounds

Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet (), Thierry Boudès and Nathalie Raulet-Croset ()
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Rachel Beaujolin-Bellet: NEOMA - Neoma Business School
Thierry Boudès: ESCP Europe - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris
Nathalie Raulet-Croset: IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School

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Abstract: This paper focuses on animal-centred organisations that operate based on the interrelationship between human and animal agencies. The empirical part develops an original case – hunting with hounds in France – that goes beyond hunting: It is also a performance that takes place outdoors in public woodlands and has organisational support. Our results show that: (1) the animal's contribution to the organisation is based not on its resistance but on the uncertainty resulting from the interrelationship between human and animal agencies; (2) animal agency is neither simply a material agency that would compare animals to passive objects nor equivalent to human agency but an agency that the human confers on the animal in various ways depending on the type of animal (deer, dogs, horse) and its role in the organisation; (3) organisational settings, not species, define animal agency and, more specifically, animals' ways of contributing to uncertainty in the organisation.

Date: 2021-05-04
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Published in Culture and Organization, 2021, 27 (3), pp.191-208. ⟨10.1080/14759551.2020.1791864⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2020.1791864

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