prof.dr. SP (Muel) Kaptein

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

Email: mkaptein@rsm.nl

Work

Guillem C. Cabana & Muel Kaptein (2025) - - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 34 (2), 409-422 - doi: -
Isabel de Bruin, Marco Meyer & Muel Kaptein (2025) - - Journal of Philanthropy, 30 (1) - doi:
Muel Kaptein (2024) - - doi:
Muel Kaptein (2024) - - Journal of Business Ethics - doi: -
Isabel de Bruin, Allison R. Russell, Muel Kaptein & L.C.P.M. Meijs (2024) - - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 53 (3), 589-614 - doi: -
Ahmed Gaara, Muel Kaptein & Guido Berens (2024) - - Public Relations Review, 50 (1) - doi: -
Muel Kaptein (2024) - - doi: -
Muel Kaptein (2024) - - doi: -
M Lückerath-Rovers, H van Ees, I Wuisman & Muel Kaptein (2023) - -
Ahmed Gaara, Muel Kaptein & Guido Berens (2023) -

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) - = ��ֱ�� 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 (2002) - Journal of Business Ethics (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic
Muel Kaptein (2001) - Journal of Business Ethics (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic

Muel Kaptein (2019) - Dutch National Compliance Award 2019
Muel Kaptein (1992) - Dutch Best Master Thesis Award

KPMG

Start date approval: June 2022
End date approval: June 2025
Place: AMSTELVEEN
Description: advisering

Tot heil des volks

Start date approval: June 2022
End date approval: June 2025
Place: AMERSFOORT
Description: Voorzitter Raad van Toezicht

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

Inge Nuijten
Servant-Leadership: Paradox or Diamond in the Rough?
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2005 - 2009
Niki den Nieuwenboer
Seeing the Shadow of the Self: Studies on Workplace Deviance
- Promotor
- 2003 - 2008
Guido Berens
Corporate Branding: The Development of Corporate associations and their Influence on Stakeholder Reactions
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 1999 - 2004
Michel Lander
Profits or Professionalism? On designing professional service firms
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2007 - 2012
Ron Meyer
Mapping the Mind of the Strategist: A Quantitative Methodology for Measuring the Strategic Beliefs of Executives
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 1997 - 2007
Joost Leunissen
All Apologies: On the willingness of perpetrators to apologize
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2009 - 2014
Maarten Wubben
Social Functions of Emotions in Social Dilemmas
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2008 - 2010
Luciana Ferreira
Attention Mosaics: Studies of organizational attention
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2006 - 2010
Ying Feng
The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Leadership Structure: Impacts on Strategic Change and Firm Performance
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2011 - 2017
Lemessa Bayissa Gobena
Towards Integrating Antecedents of Voluntary Tax Compliance
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2012 - 2017
Lonneke Roza
Employee Engagement In Corporate Social Responsibility; A collection of essays
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2012 - 2016
Katinka C. van Cranenburgh
Money or Ethics. Multinational corporations and religious organisations operating in an era of corporate responsibility.
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2012 - 2016
Aute Kasdorp
New
- Promotor
- 2013
Antoon van den Boomgaard
New
- Promotor
- 2015
Franziska Zuber
Looking at the Others. Studies on (un)ethical behavior and social relationships in organizations
- Promotor
- 2012 - 2016
Han de Haas
New
- Promotor
- 2013
Hein-Jan Vink
New
- Promotor
- 2008
Alain Hoekstra
New
- Promotor
- 2009
Kees Huizenga
New
- Promotor
- 2013
Maaike Harmsen
New
- Promotor
- 2015
Martien Helvoort
New
- Promotor
- 2013
Monique Janssen
New
- Promotor
- 2012
Sjoerd Hogenbirk
New
- Promotor
- 2015
Tugba Arik
New
- Promotor
- 2015
Deb Appel
New
- Promotor
- 2015
Gerbert Hengelaar
The Proactive Incumbent: Holy grail or hidden gem?
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2015 - 2017
Guillem Casoliva-i-Cabana
Project Guillem Casolova i Cabana
- Promotor
Jacqueline Heeren-Bogers
Control with Care : The value of soft controls in the management control system of the Dutch Defence organization
- Promotor
Daan Abraham Petrus Peeters
Open PhD project in Value Based Organizing: Acting on unprecedented change
- Promotor
- 2021
Juri Hoedemakers
Counterforcing for power of leaders: the court jester revisited
- Promotor
- 2021
Jop Versteegt CPC MBA
Research on the Effectiveness of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models in Ethical Decision Making in Business and AI support
- Promotor
- 2021
Ahmed Gaara
Developing and testing ethical principles for public relations professionals
- Promotor
- 2020
Isabel de Bruin Cardoso
The Dark Side of the NGO Halo: Exploring moral goodness as a driver for NGO unethical behavior
- Promotor
- 2019 - 2024
Guillem Casoliva-i-Cabana
Unravelling Team Ethical Culture: The existence, relevance and implications for ethics management
- Promotor
- 2016
Laurie Jansen
Parttime PhD programme
- Promotor
- 2023
Martijn Labohm
Parttime PhD programme
- Promotor
- 2023
Malika Ouacha
Receiving by Giving: The examining of cross-border diasporic and bi-cultural philanthropy
- Member Doctoral Committee
- 2020 - 2024
Giorgio Touburg
Cultivating Closeness: Micro-Level Perspectives on the Transnationalization of Knowledge-Intensive Firms
- Promotor
- 2012

EUR Dilemma Game App wins European award

The EUR Dilemma Game App has won an award from the Council of Europe as Best Practice for promoting scientific integrity.

Wednesday 8 Dec 2021
Press release

How business ethics can drive positive change

Prof. dr. Muel Kaptein about business ethics and the coronacrisis: “The longer the coronavirus crisis continues, the more business ethics will be placed under…

Thursday 4 Feb 2021
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