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The need to seek theoretical foundations of organisational networks is becoming an essential issue in enabling the creation, functioning and management of organisational networks to be formulated. The issues involved in organisational networks are becoming an ever more extensive professional field of knowledge. It remains now to seek possible connections with the great number of schools of theory and methodology. Both problems associated with managing organisational networks, and individual occurring processes in webs are closely tied to specific theories. The article explains the foundations of theoretical organisational networks looking at the development of the concept of the organisational network from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering an interpretation of the concept and functioning of organisational networks in the light of economic theory.