Mehdi Aqapour and Muhammad Hussein Noure Elahi
Learner-oriented theory is one of the most important foundational theories in administration research, but it rests on tenuous cognitive uncertainties. We combine classical learner-oriented theory with a realistic theory of the intrinsically imperfect human potential for interpersonal sense-making. This allows us to systematically show how the principal’s ability to cogitate with the learner influences value creation in principal-learner relations, and to link this to organizational sense-making instruments