Professionalization and organizational problems of sports clubs: Is there a relationship?

Sports clubs have been reporting several organizational problems in recent decades (e.g., recruitment and retention of members volunteers). At the same time, certain sports professionalized their strategies, structures, processes, staff. However, previous research has not analyzed whether professionalization is related to problems. Therefore, this study conducts, first step, a cluster analysis based on three dimensions identify types among clubs. In second it examines differences identified types. The main findings are that (1) with paid staff report fewer recruiting retaining but more finances than rely voluntary work, (2) increased human resources management (HRM) strategy board coaches low HRM strategy. These results show different, necessarily fewer,