This volume consists of the revised versions I of a selection of papers
of the second EDINEB conference, held in Uppsala from 17-19 August 1995.
As with the fIrst edition, the conference and these proceedings are
rooted in the participant's involvement with 'EDucational INnovation in
Economics and Business'. The thematic focus is quality audit, quality
assessment and quality improvement, all of them collected in the theme
'In Search of Quality'. For the fIrst EDINEB conference, which took
place in Maastricht, December 1993, 'Problem-Based Learning' was chosen
as leading theme. The introduction of problem-based learning in the
curriculum of any faculty is to be regarded as a major innovation in the
educational system. In contrast, the dedication to the search of quality
in education resulted in a large variety of case studies and theoretical
contributions on educational innovations aiming at increasing the
quality of teaching and learning. This contrast between the one major
step and the many small steps has been the decisive factor for the
editors to compose these proceedings as a kind of allegory of Robert M.
Pirsig's famous novel 'Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an
Inquiry into Values' (ZAMM). Of course, on top of the very obvious
reason that the conference had been saddled with a theme that is
identical to the title that many critics (probably those who aren't so
fond of motorcycling) used to rename ZAMM.