Tony English

BA (Otago), DipContEd, MEd (Hons), PhD (NE)

Room: 3.62, Law & Commerce Building
Telephone: (08) 8201 2479Fax: (08) 8201 2644
Email: Tony.English@flinders.edu.au

History

Joined the School after a lengthy career as an administrator, development project manager and consultant in Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

Current teaching

• International Business Context
• International Business Management
• International Business in the Asia Pacific Region
• Honours and Postgraduate Supervision

Research interests

• International negotiation (diplomacy, hostage release, business)
• Taiwan-China relations
• Asia-Australia relations
• Problem definition and analysis

Tony English’s broad area of research is the ways in which international managers and negotiators identify and define contextual influences on decision-making and other behaviour. His main project, funded originally by a Small ARC Grant, focuses on the strategies and tactics of outstanding negotiators in international business, diplomacy and other activities. The study is founded on ‘tension analysis’, a technique developed by Tony for defining and analysing management problems.

Selected publications

• ‘Not so dire Strait?’, Quadrant, Vol 50, No, 9, September 2006, pp. 41-44
• ‘Taiwanese prefer to accentuate the positive,’ Australian Financial Review, Weekend Essay, 8-9 July 2006, p. 62
• English, T., Andressen, C. & Upton, G. ‘An Australia-China free trade agreement: Managing an elephant.’ Taiwanese Journal of Australian Studies, Volume 6, 2005, pp. 3–40
• ‘Negotiation as tension management: A model for business and other international transactions.’ School of Commerce Research Paper Series, 03/11, 2003
• ‘Defining tension scenarios: A managerial approach to international negotiations.’ In Enhancing Business and Government Capability: Proceedings of the 16th ANZAM Conference, La Trobe University, Beechworth, 2002.
• ‘Tension analysis in international organizations: A tool for breaking down communication barriers.’ International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 9(1), 2001, pp. 58–83.
• ‘Tension analysis in international organisations: Learning to improve communication in the spirit of TQM.’ In TQM and Innovation: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on ISO 9000 and TQM, Hong Kong, 1999.
• ‘Walk softly and carry a big umbrella.’ Article commissioned by The Australian for the business supplement Inside Asia, 17 November 1997, p. 21.
• ‘Ten wrong assumptions: How Australian negotiators undermine themselves in Asia.’ Asian Business Review, June 1996, pp. 53-54.
• ‘Stepping into the shoes of the participants: Short course teaching skills.’ In Pamela Thomas [ed.], Teaching for Development. An International Review of Australian Formal and Non Formal Education for Asia and the Pacific, ADSN/ANU: Canberra, 1995.