Bill Burpitt, Associate Professor in the Love School of Business, has had two papers accepted at the 2006 Academy of Management annual meetings. The first, entitled “Yet not all fail: Strategies for firms in declining industries,” explores how a firm’s approach to organizational learning can influence its response to industry decline. The second paper, written with co-author Dr. Sally Fowler, Assistant Professor of Management at American University, is entitled “Retrenchment versus diversification: Strategic alternatives for the small firm.” This paper compares the performance implications of two strategies that are associated with attempts at reversing decline. Both papers examine how supply firms to the North Carolina furniture industry are responding to the industry’s shift to off-shore production.