Dr. Kim Meijer

To be human is to be there for the other - free after Emmanuel Levinas.

Dr. Kim Meijer is an associate professor at the Center for Entrepreneurship, Governance & Stewardship. Her research and teaching activities focus primarily on the morality of people within organizations. Her thinking on these topics is inspired in part by French philosophers such as Emmanuel Levinas and Simone de Beauvoir, from whom we learn that moral responsibility is not something you can take (or not take), but much rather something you are. Bringing students and professionals into this thinking gives her the most energy. Meijer also particularly enjoys the critical-constructive role of the business ethicist in relation to organizations. She wants to contribute to forming responsible leaders, with an emphasis on morally responsible leadership.

Meijer is also currently affiliated with the Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen as Associate Lecturer in Business Ethics. In the past, she has worked in the philosophy department at Tilburg University, where she also received her doctorate, and at Saxion's Hospitality Busines School. Meijer also has more than 10 years of experience as a corporate ethics trainer in different types of organizations.

Interests

Meijer prefers being with her family. She also enjoys having a good dinner out with friends, running through the woods or reading a good book. 

Relevant publications 

• Meijer, K., & Smit, M. (2024). The status of Business Ethics Teaching, Research and Training: the Netherlands. In B. Robinson, & G. Enderle (Eds.), Global Survey of Business Ethics: 2022-2024: Teaching, Research and Training: Europe (Vol. 3, pp. 343-370). Globethics Global Series. 
• Meijer, K. Impossible and Inevitable: Reconstructing the Critical Discourse of Business Ethics. PhD Diss. (2023). 
• Meijer, K. Verantwoordelijkheid die pijn doet. Wijsgerig Perspectief. 60(4): 7-12 (2020). 
• Meijer, K. Levinas, hospitality and the feminine other. In Lashley, C. ed. The Routledge Handbook of Hospitality Studies. Oxon: Routledge, 43-56 (2017).