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Hoosier is pretty much right on when specifying groups on one campus. If you have big and small chapters on a single campus, then yes, the larger chapters are at a competetive advantage in things like intramurals, fundraisers, and activities in which attrition can win it for you.
This is not to say that the smaller chapters cannot manage to beat the bigger chapters at somethings, but it takes a motivated membership and likely will only occur in one area of greek life.
For example, Triangle won homecoming among the fraternities this year at Nebraska, despite a very small membership. Granted they were helped by their triad with a larger fraternity (FarmHouse who was very motivated to beat Beta) and a Sorority at Total. But they were able to motivate their guys for that week, and get out to events particularly those based on % of participants.
Another example is Theta Xi, as they are smaller but consistently battle for tops of intramurals. However in their case it is at the expense of everything else. They are not well rounded at all.
If you are at a campus where all the chapters are smaller than your size is not going to be a hinderance, just reality.
As for how larger chapters operate: At least in chapter meetings there does need to be adherence to ParliPro so that things that need the chapter input can be addressed efficiently. Also there tend to be a lot more committees formed. I notice this between the average size of the fraternity chapters here and the sororities which is usually a difference of about 30-40 members. The sororities tend to name more people to commitees compared to the fraternities where the execs take on more responsibility.
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