“…Several national and international authors have investigated the impact of institutional, sector-related, and organizational factors on the environment (de Mascena, Barakat, Isabella & Fischmann 2020;Kolk, 2010;Abreu, Cunha & Barlow, 2015;Soares et al 2020;Matten & Moon, 2008;Lattemann et al, 2009;Amorim, 2015;Delmas & Toffel, 2004;Viana Junior & Crisóstomo, 2019), but the present study takes one step further by comparing the institutional environments of two widely different economies (Germany and Brazil) while evaluating disclosure-related factors at multiple levels (country, sector, firm).…”