RE-DEFINING THE FEATURES AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF COOPERATIVES USING ISLAMIC COOPERATIVE’S PARAMETER
The Rochdale Principles of Cooperative, an English 
oriented theory propounded by Rochdale Pioneers, has 
albeit became the adopted principles for the establishment 
and operations of Cooperative societies. Rochdale 
principles determined the features of Cooperative societies 
while the various existing Cooperatives culminated into 
different types and classifications. This is notwithstanding 
the fact that, Cooperative societies originated from the 
cultural and traditional practices of various society. The 
cultural and traditional features of Cooperative are deemed 
to have been incorporated into the Rochdale Principles. 
However, with the re-introduction of Islamic finance, 
Islamic Cooperative inclusive, no attempt has so far been 
made to justify the existing classifications and features of 
Cooperatives as determined by the Rochdale principles, 
despite the addition of Islamic Cooperative societies. This 
research therefore, through doctrinal examination of 
literature, re-visit the features and classifications of 
Cooperatives by incorporating the features of Islamic 
Cooperatives and identifying the additional classification 
of Cooperatives in a different dimension. This is to bring 
Islamic Cooperative Societies into the same limelight with 
the existing principles of cooperatives. 
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