In 1978 Mokken and Stokman conducted a research into the relations between boards of directors of large corporations in the Netherlands. They selected the 86 largest Dutch business corporations, financial companies and financial state institutions for 1972. They used different selection criteria for these categories. This dataset contains the reconstructed database with the selected corporations, 90 in total. The primary publication reports on the top 86. The dataset includes information about the name and function of 878 directors.