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For the past ten years, management sciences have taken over subjects described as sensitive. While having a strong societal resonance, these subjects are often associated with potential threats to different stakeholders in the research. While those involving respondents have been studied at length in the literature, threats to researchers are still underestimated, often referring to their professional responsibility, defined by researchers themselves in terms of political role. This conception, based on one of the researcher’s forms of engagement, has the consequence of evading some of the threats associated with other forms of engagement such as the interest in studying sensitive subjects. This is why this article focuses on the behavioral dimension by questioning the extent to which the researcher’s social responsibility is impacted by the fact of studying a sensitive subject and by the multiple constraints to which he/her is subjected to protect the participants and himself/herself. This is why this article questions the extent to which the researcher’s social responsibility is impacted by studying a sensitive subject and the multiple constraints to which he/she is subjected to protect participants and protect himself/herself from inherent threats. We conclude that, when studying sensitive subjects, the researcher has a strengthened social responsibility at the individual, institutional and societal level committing him/her to adopt appropriate behaviors and a sustained ethical posture. Faced with his/her own vulnerabilities, a need for objectivity and a framework formalizing ethical expectations, the researcher may even feel an impossibility to study sensitive subjects. While these effects are undeniably binding, they reinforce the necessary questioning of the ethics and purposes of research, underscoring the importance of a strong reflexivity for any researcher of a sensitive subject, especially in management where this reflexivity is still little materialized in the publications.