As social robots see increasing deployment within the general public, improving the interaction with those robots is essential. Spoken language offers an intuitive interface for the human–robot interaction (HRI), with dialogue management (DM) being a key component in those interactive systems. Yet, to overcome current challenges and manage smooth, informative, and engaging interaction, a more structural approach to combining HRI and DM is needed. In this systematic review, we analyze the current use of DM in HRI and focus on the type of dialogue manager used, its capabilities, evaluation methods, and the challenges specific to DM in HRI. We identify the challenges and current scientific frontier related to the DM approach, interaction domain, robot appearance, physical situatedness, and multimodality.@en