Kwan Hong Tan

The Epistemic Substitution Error: Why Accurate Algorithmic Decisions Can Still Be Illegitimate

Institutions increasingly rely on algorithmic systems to assess people, allocate opportunities, and justify consequential decisions. Existing debates often ask whether these systems are accurate, fair, transparent, or explainable. This article identifies a distinct philosophical...

Governance-Aware Generative AI Literacy for Adult Higher Education

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is becoming routine in university study, yet institutional responses often separate technical fluency, academic integrity, and responsible governance. This integrative conceptual synthesis develops governance-aware GenAI literacy for adu...

Beyond Zoom: A Socio-Temporal Framework for Leading Fragmented Teams in the New Era of Work

The widespread adoption of remote, hybrid, and distributed work models represents a fundamental paradigm shift in the modern workplace. While initial discourse focused on the implementation of communication technologies, organizations now face deeper challenges in fostering cohes...

Endogenous Escalation and Chokepoint Cascades in the U.S.-Iran War: A Partially Observable Dynamic Game of Global Energy-Macroeconomic Tail Risk

This paper develops the Endogenous Escalation and Chokepoint Cascade Model (EECCM), a hybrid mathematical framework for forecasting the probabilistic narrative arc and global economic tail risk of the U.S.-Iran war. The central outcome is not a point forecast of oil prices. It is...