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(or in some cases by customers as a contract condition). During the initial phases of the Mondragon Group’s internationalisation process, there was not a formal strategy to promote or guide the Mondragon co-operatives placement abroad, and the Mondragon headquarters’ recommendations for placement were not convincing to the co-operatives. Having said that, at the end of 2006 among Mondragon 65 production plants abroad, there are four international clusters (Kunshan in China, Wrocław in Poland, Olomouc in the Czech Republic and Queretaro in Mexico); the distance between factories varies from sharing a common business park to a maximum of 50 km. In all the cases the production plants share the same city centre. This is also the place where local and expatriate managers live.
Wroclaw (5) Ollomouc (5) Kunshan (4) Queretaro (4)
Mondragon representative offices 6 Production plants abroad 65 Source: ex novo
Figure 7.65: Mondragon international clusters: location (Dec. 2006) The international cluster phenomenon is quite new; in fact if the same analysis would have been done in 2005, only the Queretaro cluster (Mexico) would have been found.
Jose Mari Luzarraga PhD Mondragon University - 2008