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Scholar Bio
Dr. OD Anosike is a researcher in Public Administration whose scholarly work focuses on the stewardship of governmental resources within higher education institutions, with particular emphasis on financial strategy, accountability, and public value creation. His dissertation examines how administrators interpret, understand, and justify the allocation of governmental funding across competing institutional priorities, including academics, staffing, and athletics.
Grounded in a dual-theoretical framework of New Public Management and Public Value Theory, Anosike’s scholarship explores the tension between market-driven performance models and public-sector accountability, emphasizing how leadership decisions shape institutional legitimacy, effectiveness, and long-term sustainability. His work is especially concerned with the political, organizational, and financial dynamics that influence resource distribution within complex colleges and universities.
Anosike employs a qualitative, multi-method research design incorporating document analysis, surveys, and semi-structured interviews, situated within a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. His dissertation draws on data collected from administrators at four-year Division I public institutions and offers insight into how decision-makers navigate fiscal constraints, stakeholder pressures, and competing missions in contemporary higher education.
Beyond his dissertation, Anosike’s research agenda extends to issues of higher education finance, institutional governance, performance-based funding, organizational leadership, NCAA policy, and the evolving role of intercollegiate athletics in colleges and universities. His additional academic interests include resource allocation, capital acquisition and revenue-generation strategy, international sport business, and the Great Recession. Collectively, his work seeks to inform policy development, institutional strategy, and leadership practice by connecting rigorous scholarship with the lived realities of higher education administration.
Anosike’s scholarship is deeply shaped by his professional experience as a former Division I student-athlete and internationally accomplished professional basketball player. This practitioner perspective provides a distinctive lens through which he examines organizational culture, leadership dynamics, and performance systems in both academic and athletic contexts.
Through his research, Anosike aims to contribute to the development of more accountable, effective, and ethically grounded governance models in higher education and intercollegiate athletics, while supporting the preparation of future leaders committed to public value, institutional integrity, and sustainable impact. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Alpha Kappa Delta, and Alpha Phi Sigma, and, in recognition of his scholarly achievements, has been awarded the NCAA Ethnic Minority Postgraduate Scholarship, the Bob McCloskey Insurance Postgraduate Scholarship, and the John Shippen Achievement Scholarship.