“…Integration among academic staff in merged institutions (Cai, 2006) The impact of neoliberalism on university management (Mok, 2010) Stakeholders' perceptions of national policies for internationalization (Cho and Palmer, 2013) The level of autonomy of the university with regard to the state (Arikewuyo and Ilusanya, 2010) n/a n/a The factors affecting the decision to merge among higher education institutions (Kyvik and Stensaker, 2013) Evaluation and accreditationquality assurance n/a n/a n/a n/a The implementation of systems for quality assurance (French et al, 2014;Shah and Nair, 2011) The board's role in quality assurance (Rowlands, 2012(Rowlands, , 2013a(Rowlands, , 2013c The implementation of systems for quality assurance (Askling, Lycke and Stave, 2004) The implementation of systems for quality assurance (Csizmadia, Enders and Westerheijden, 2008) The introduction of quality management (Papadimitriou, 2011) education laws across Europe provide for university boards with either external members only or a combination of internal and external members. There has been a gradual strengthening of the power of these bodies.…”