ABSTRACT
In the Netherlands at the end of the 1970s and in the early 1980s, a growing interest in the field of interorganizational relations and networks began to develop. This interest manifested itself in a stream of publications (Breuer, 1978, 1982; Edelman Bos, 1980; Van Gils, 1978; Godfroy, 1991; Hattman, 1980, 1982; Luscuere, 1978; Wassenberg, 1980). In 1982, the Handbook of Labour and Organizational Psychology published a summary of the status of the field at that time (Van Gils, 1982), and highlighted a number of topics which were then of particular interest in the Netherlands.
