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In short, workers ' co-operatives are organised to serve the needs of worker-owners by generating benefits ( which may or may not be profits ) for the worker owners rather than external investors.

This worker-driven orientation makes them fundamentally different from other corporations.

Additional cooperative structural characteristics and guiding principles further distinguish them from other business models.

For example, worker-owners may not believe that profit maximisation is the best, or only, goal for their co-operative or they may follow the Rochdale Principles.