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This paper aims to investigate the impact of board gender diversity (BGD) on firm financial stability during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period.

Difference-in-differences method was used for a sample of 891 US companies observed from 2018 to 2021.

The results indicate significant negative relationships between BGD and financial stability. The authors put in evidence a nonlinear relationship between BGD and financial stability. Also, the authors found that internal women directors as well as external ones decrease financial stability.

The results emphasize the beneficial effect of having more women on corporate boards during health crises and suggest that policymakers should take measures to promote BGD.

This paper highlights the impact of BGD on financial stability and provides additional evidence on the usefulness of BGD as an effective tool for crisis management.

Knowledge sharing is pivotal for the professional development among academics in higher education. However, little research has focused on understanding both the positive and negative facets of organizational climate in relation to knowledge sharing among academics. Based on the theory of planned behavior, this study aims to examine the impact of four facets of organizational climate, i.e. affiliation, trust, competition and individualism, on academics’ subjective norms and intentions regarding knowledge sharing.

Survey data were collected from 532 university faculty staff in China and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling.

Results indicated that affiliation and trust had positive effects on subjective norms regarding knowledge sharing, whereas competition and individualism had negative effects on subjective norms. Furthermore, subjective norms were found to significantly enhance academics’ intentions to share knowledge.

Practical implications are provided on how to cultivate a supportive organizational climate to foster knowledge sharing among faculty staff for enhanced professional capital and competitiveness.

The study contributes to the literature by integrating both the positive and negative facets of organizational climate and highlighting the hindering effects of competition and individualism on knowledge sharing, which have not been fully investigated in the existing literature.