Biography
Muel Kaptein is a professor of business ethics and integrity management at the Department of Business-Society Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).
His research interests lie in the area of defining, measuring and managing the ethics of organizations.
Muel wrote eight books and has published 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organization Studies, Journal of Management, and Academy of Management Review.
He was section-editor of Journal of Business Ethics between 2002 and 2019. He teaches courses in CSR, leadership, business ethics and consultancy.
Muel is also equity partner at KPMG where he helps organizations in developing, protecting and assessing their ethics, integrity and compliance.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Full professor | Department of Business-Society Management
- mkaptein@rsm.nl
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Work
- Muel Kaptein (2025) - Employees’ Fantasies about Unethical Behavior at Work: A Framework for Determining their Moral Seriousness - Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal - doi: 10.1007/s10672-025-09548-2 - [link]
- Muel Kaptein (2025) - Stakeholder ethics: Defining the ethical responsibilities of stakeholders to and for companies<sup>1</sup> - Business and Society Review - doi: 10.1111/basr.70010 - [link]
- Guillem C. Cabana & Muel Kaptein (2025) - Team ethical culture as a coupling mechanism between a well-implemented organizational ethics program and the prevention of unethical behavior in teams - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 34 (2), 409-422 - doi: 10.1111/beer.12661 - [link]
- Isabel de Bruin, Marco Meyer & Muel Kaptein (2025) - Exploring the dark side of the NGO halo: Relating NGO mission, morals, and people to NGO unethical behavior - Journal of Philanthropy, 30 (1) - doi: 10.1002/nvsm.70000
- Muel Kaptein (2024) - Normatively reconciling shareholder and stakeholder theories: The ethical responsibility of a business is serving its owners by serving its stakeholders - doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4659249
- Muel Kaptein (2024) - A Profit Cap is not yet a General Moral Duty for Companies: A Corporate Social Contract Perspective - Journal of Business Ethics, 199 (2), 351-364 - doi: 10.1007/s10551-024-05834-5 - [link]
- Isabel de Bruin, Allison R. Russell, Muel Kaptein & L.C.P.M. Meijs (2024) - How Moral Goodness Drives Unethical Behavior: Empirical Evidence for the NGO Halo Effect - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 53 (3), 589-614 - doi: 10.1177/08997640231179751 - [link]
- Ahmed Gaara, Muel Kaptein & Guido Berens (2024) - It is all in the name: Toward a typology of public relations professionals' ethical dilemmas - Public Relations Review, 50 (1) - doi: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2023.102418 - [link]
- Muel Kaptein (2024) - Introduction to Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity - doi: 10.4337/9781803927930.00005 - [link]
- Muel Kaptein (2024) - Research Handbook on Organisational Integrity - doi: 10.4337/9781803927930 - [link]
- Martijn van der Steen, Muel Kaptein & Martin de Bree (19 October 2023) - New research programme aims to innovate public regulation
- Muel Kaptein (2 November 2022) - More ethical businesses are more unlikely to experience unethical employee behaviour
- Muel Kaptein (9 December 2021) - = Erasmus University Rotterdam Dilemma Game App Wins European Award
- Muel Kaptein, E Roos & Ph Wallage (1 January 2009) - Trust Rules: Negen handvatten voor een betere balans tussen regels en vertrouwen.
- JFDB (Johan) Wempe & Muel Kaptein (1 January 1994) - Ondernemingscode NV Luchthaven Schiphol
- Muel Kaptein (2019) - Dutch National Compliance Award 2019
- Muel Kaptein (1992) - Dutch Best Master Thesis Award
Erasmus MC
- Start date approval
- January 2024
- End date approval
- January 2027
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Voorzitter Commissie Wetenschappelijke Integriteit
Erasmus Holding
- Start date approval
- January 2025
- End date approval
- December 2027
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Raad van Advies van Governance Opleiding
Tot heil des volks
- Start date approval
- June 2025
- End date approval
- June 2028
- Place
- AMERSFOORT
- Description
- Voorzitter Raad van Toezicht
KPMG
- Start date approval
- June 2025
- End date approval
- June 2028
- Place
- AMSTELVEEN
- Description
- advisering
Consultancy Project PT
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM28MIM-P
Verantwoord leiderschap in organisaties
- Year Level
- bachelor 2, pre-master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BK2101
Responsible Business Leadership
- Year Level
- bachelor 2, pre-master, bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BT2101
Introduction to Business
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BT1201
Introduction to business
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BK1201
