Michael Stramand

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About Michael Stramand

Michael Stramand is an enthusiastic, ambitious, determined, and resilient individual that works hard in every endeavour he pursues, and is currently a Management PhD student at Monash University. His flexible research interests include digital start-ups, entrepreneurship, leadership, motivation, organisational behaviour, and international business. Michael has developed research skills during his Honours year of university, and he is competent at using SPSS and Mplus for quantitative analysis, and wrote a Honours thesis of approximately 17,320 words about leadership behaviours and psychological follower needs. Michael’s PhD thesis project is about digital start-ups, and his first of three manuscripts is about extending new venture frameworks and exploring digital start-up characteristics. Outside of academic life, Michael has also been an independent music artist, music producer, and songwriter for over seven years. He has been involved in many areas of the music industry, ranging from local Victorian government programs, to charities, to collaborative efforts with Australian record labels, as well as collaborating with graphic designers and photographers. In the music industry, Michael has released music, organised and managed events, and has experience in the business of music dealing with a variety of paperwork in regards to royalties, licensing, and distribution.