Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness
Collegiate sport clubs constitute an important sport outlet for college students, with club operations managed by member students serving in governing roles. While clubs are given autonomy to operate, they must navigate a complex institutional environment with regulative pressures that can impede c...
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| author | Leeann Lower-Hoppe W. Andrew Czekanski Daniel Springer Brittani Becher J Patrick Marsh Richard 'JR' Rathjens |
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Collegiate sport clubs constitute an important sport outlet for college students, with club operations managed by member students serving in governing roles. While clubs are given autonomy to operate, they must navigate a complex institutional environment with regulative pressures that can impede club operations. This research explored the institutional barriers that impede collegiate sport clubs from operating effectively. Guided by a bioecological framework and social constructivist epistemology, we facilitated focus groups with 29 collegiate sports clubs, interviewed four recreational sport administrators, and collected 29 public documents pertaining to club operations across three universities in the United States. Thematic analysis across the data sources revealed three overarching themes, pointing to institutional rules, policies, and procedures (regulations on club eligibility, executive boards, resource allocations, financial activities, risk, travel, marketing); university constraints (limited university resources, organizational problems, interorganizational conflict); and club constraints (poor communication, poor planning and documentation, poor decisions, centralized leadership) as factors impeding club operations. Study implications include reducing bureaucratic red tape, training club leaders, creating a sport club council, supporting club resource acquisition, and increasing club’s division of labor and communication.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4043047033ea4735b053d7942891fafd2025-08-20T02:26:07ZengUniversity of Kansas LibrariesJournal of Intercollegiate Sport1941-63421941-417X2025-05-0118210.17161/jis.v18i2.22331Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational EffectivenessLeeann Lower-Hoppe0W. Andrew CzekanskiDaniel SpringerBrittani BecherJ Patrick MarshRichard 'JR' RathjensThe Ohio State University Collegiate sport clubs constitute an important sport outlet for college students, with club operations managed by member students serving in governing roles. While clubs are given autonomy to operate, they must navigate a complex institutional environment with regulative pressures that can impede club operations. This research explored the institutional barriers that impede collegiate sport clubs from operating effectively. Guided by a bioecological framework and social constructivist epistemology, we facilitated focus groups with 29 collegiate sports clubs, interviewed four recreational sport administrators, and collected 29 public documents pertaining to club operations across three universities in the United States. Thematic analysis across the data sources revealed three overarching themes, pointing to institutional rules, policies, and procedures (regulations on club eligibility, executive boards, resource allocations, financial activities, risk, travel, marketing); university constraints (limited university resources, organizational problems, interorganizational conflict); and club constraints (poor communication, poor planning and documentation, poor decisions, centralized leadership) as factors impeding club operations. Study implications include reducing bureaucratic red tape, training club leaders, creating a sport club council, supporting club resource acquisition, and increasing club’s division of labor and communication. https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/22331sport clubscollegiate recreationbioecological modeluniversity bureaucracyconstraints |
| spellingShingle | Leeann Lower-Hoppe W. Andrew Czekanski Daniel Springer Brittani Becher J Patrick Marsh Richard 'JR' Rathjens Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness Journal of Intercollegiate Sport sport clubs collegiate recreation bioecological model university bureaucracy constraints |
| title | Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness |
| title_full | Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness |
| title_fullStr | Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness |
| title_short | Institutional Barriers Impeding Collegiate Sport Club Operational Effectiveness |
| title_sort | institutional barriers impeding collegiate sport club operational effectiveness |
| topic | sport clubs collegiate recreation bioecological model university bureaucracy constraints |
| url | https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/22331 |
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