Enhancing research-teaching link in organizational behavior: Illustration through an actual example

•Research-teaching link.•Illustration through an example of research-based teaching.•Illustration through an example of teaching-inspired research.•Research-teaching-research cycle for strengthening the research-teaching link.•Illustration through an example of research-teaching-research cycle.

The existing literature has noted that there is inadequate connection between research and teaching in management and in organizational behavior (OB). It has also noted that the reciprocal relationship between research and teaching in management has been inadequately studied. This paper addresses this research inadequacy. It briefly outlines that OB courses are unfavorably viewed in the business education and that there is inadequate transmission of research knowledge in teaching. It discusses the need for transmitting OB research-based knowledge in teaching and outlines some of the suggestions contained in the existing research for facilitating such transmission. In light of these suggestions contained in the literature, it describes an actual example that illustrates how OB research-teaching link can be strengthened through two complementary processes of research-based teaching and teaching-inspired research. The example outlined in the paper is in the form of an “illustration”. The specific and concrete example serves to illuminate and illustrate the generalized issue of research-teaching link. The example illustrates one way of addressing the generalized issue of enhancing the research-teaching link. The example also illustrates how the generalized research-teaching-research cycle can operate iteratively to enhance the research-teaching link.