May 1, 2025, 11:00am-12:00pm
CITI-IMMAA Seminar: John Oliver, Professor Emeritus, Bournemouth University (UK)
“Exploring the Influence of CEO Traits on Media Firm Innovation and Performance”
This seminar was organized by Zvezdan Vukanovic, Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Media, Canadian University Dubai.
Professor Oliver will present and discuss his paper on exploring the influence of CEO traits on media firm innovation and performance. He will address various traits that make some executives better able to frame market opportunities and evaluate risk than others. In particular, he examines key traits that help differentiate success in a CEO in the media field.
John Oliver is Professor Emeritus at Bournemouth University as well as a multi-award winning academic-consultant whose research has had a significant impact on both policy and business practice. His work focuses on the intersection of innovation, crisis management, and strategic organizational transformation. He has a proven track record of generating world-class impact, with his research on the effects of crisis events on innovation and corporate financial performance directly influencing the UK Government’s ‘Build Back Better: our plan for growth’ and the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s ‘Innovation Strategy’. He has also influenced the UK Communications policy and regulatory decisions/
He is an advisory board member of the Horizon Scanning & Foresight Committee (Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology) and a member of the Centre of Excellence and Profession in the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (UK Parliament). He is a former President of the European Media Management Association, a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and a former Parliamentary Academic Fellow.