Muel Kaptein

Responsibility Gaps, LLMs & Organisations: Many Agents, Many Levels, and Many Interactions

Mihaela Constantinescu, Muel Kaptein

In this article, we propose a business ethics-inspired approach to address the distribution dimension of responsibility gaps introduced by general-purpose AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs). We argue that the pervasive deployment of LLMs exacerbates the long-standing problem of “many hands” …

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Understanding the Effectiveness of Ethics Programs in Preventing Unethical Behavior by Unravelling the Dimensions of Team Ethical Culture

Guillem C. Cabana, Muel Kaptein

Abstract Unethical behavior in the workplace is a widespread phenomenon. A burgeoning body of research has examined the influence of the ethics program and ethical culture of an organization on the unethical behavior of its employees. The existence of different team ethical …

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To Punish or to Forgive: Managerial Responses to Unethical Employee Behavior from an Organizational Ethical Culture Perspective

Muel Kaptein

Abstract This article examines whether management should respond to unethical employee behavior with punishment or forgiveness from the perspective of how these responses influence the ethical culture of an organization. Using expressive punishment theory, this article argues that both punishment and forgiveness …

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The Limits of the Ethical Responsibilities of Companies: Using Corporate Social Contract Theory to Identify Boundary Principles

Muel Kaptein

Abstract Many normative theories in business ethics articulate the ethical responsibilities that companies have but fail to specify the ethical responsibilities that companies do not have. This omission can create the misleading impression that companies’ ethical responsibilities are unlimited, leading to both …

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The Status of Normative Ethical Decision-Making Models: The Development and Application of an Analytical Framework

Jop Versteegt, Marius van Dijke, Muel Kaptein

Abstract Normative ethical decision-making models (NEDMs) are designed to enhance ethical decision-making. NEDMs are widely employed in business contexts. Unfortunately, there is no overview of NEDMs available in the scholarly literature for use in business contexts. Additionally, there is no analytical framework …

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Employees’ Fantasies about Unethical Behavior at Work: A Framework for Determining their Moral Seriousness

Muel Kaptein

Abstract Freedom of thought is an important right. However, does this mean that employees should be allowed to think anything? This article argues, through the concept of the moral duty of stakeholder love, that fantasies about one’s own unethical behavior at work …

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Handbuch Compliance-Management

Josef Wieland, Roland Steinmeyer, Stephan Grüninger, Melanie Altmeyer et autres

Compliance ist als Integritätsmanagement heute ein wesentlicher Aspekt erfolgreichen unternehmerischen Handelns. Unter den Bedingungen tiefgreifender Transformationen, die neue digitale und KI-gestützte Geschäftsmodelle ermöglichen, die Welt verbinden und vielseitige ungekannte Risiken bergen, ist ein robustes Management von Compliance und Integrity gefragt, das nicht …

Stakeholder ethics: Defining the ethical responsibilities of stakeholders to and for companies 1

Muel Kaptein

Abstract Because business ethics focuses on the ethical responsibilities of companies to and for their stakeholders, the impression that companies have only duties and that stakeholders have only rights can arise. To prevent stakeholders from becoming passive as a result, this article …

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Exploring the Dark Side of the NGO Halo: Relating NGO Mission, Morals, and People to NGO Unethical Behavior

Isabel de Bruin Cardoso, Marco Meyer, Muel Kaptein

ABSTRACT This study explores why nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) engage in unethical behavior because of, and not despite, their perceived moral integrity. Contrary to expectations, we show how a glorified perception of moral integrity within NGOs can create blind spots for unethical behavior, …

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Normatively Reconciling Shareholder and Stakeholder Theories: The Ethical Responsibility of Business Is to Serve Its Shareholders by Serving Its Stakeholders

Muel Kaptein

Shareholder theory and stakeholder theory are often regarded as contrasting perspectives. Numerous studies have attempted to reconcile these perspectives by arguing and empirically demonstrating that serving stakeholders can be profitable for shareholders. However, the risk of this instrumental approach is that a …

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A Profit Cap is not yet a General Moral Duty for Companies: A Corporate Social Contract Perspective

Muel Kaptein

Abstract In both the literature and practice, it has been advocated that companies should have a profit cap. Utilizing corporate social contract theory, this article posits that under at least three conditions, companies do not have a general moral duty to cap …

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Exploring the dark side of NGO moral goodness: a conceptual framework on the NGO halo and its role in unethical behaviour

Isabel de Bruin Cardoso, Muel Kaptein, Lucas Meijs

There are various examples of unethical behaviour in and by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), yet NGOs are perceived as morally good organisations. Drawing on social identity theory and cognitive dissonance theory we develop a conceptual framework to develop a new root cause for …

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