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Mondragon is the largest business group in the Basque Country, the tenth largest in Spain and the largest in the social economy. In recent years, Mondragon has been seeking to adapt to a new context of increasingly complex and global markets. One result of this process of adaptation has been the full entry of Mondragón itself into the global economy in general, and, in particular, the international expansion of its manufacturing activities. This paper is the result of a wider study that developed an analytical tool for the evaluation of socio-economic impact which has been applied to Mondragon enterprises in risk countries identified as target markets. It combines two kinds of measurement: firstly, the economic impact of these firms' manufacturing activities through Input-Output tables (Leontief, 1970), and, secondly, the alignment of different economic, environmental and sociallyresponsible policies and practices with their core business strategies (Porter y Kramer, 2006). This paper presents the case of Orkli S.Coop in Kunshan, China, following fieldwork that took place in June 2009. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]