Our contribution aims to propose a research agenda for better understanding the connections between responsibility and language practices in plurilingual, language-diverse contexts.
To do this, we connect key contributions from literature on corporate sociolinguistic responsibility, responsible management, and responsible management learning and education and place them in the context of stakeholder theory in order to outline three specific areas for future research: the conceptualization of responsible language-sensitive management, decision-making by practitioners about language management and how people learn about language management and responsibility.
We show that drawing on a nuanced and comprehensive notion of responsibility, combined with a stakeholder theory lens, can lay the groundwork for a promising basis for future research on language and responsibility.
Our contribution continues a conversation that is crucial to international and intercultural management and points a way forward for scholars and practitioners to strategically approach a key issue for communication and collaboration.
