Abstract:In order to explore the research status and development trend of relational governance, 151 foreign literatures and 153 Chinese literatures as a sample was reviewed. The overall structure of the existing research was presented with the method of co-word analysis, through the way of multivariate statistical analysis and social network analysis. Then chooses the top times citation literatures to obtain a deep understanding by using literature analysis. The results show that the relational governance is in the stage of development, showing dispersed in research areas and prominent in research subject. The common important research topic of home and foreign included division of the basic dimensions of the relational governance, the effectiveness of relational governance and the relationship between relational and contractual governance; the research in the field of public governance and family business governance was specific to home. In sum, domestic research lagging behind the international research. Building a meta-analysis framework of the relational governance, strengthening the understanding of the nature of relational governance, expanding the study of the emerging field, as well as deepening the horizontal dimension of the research were the development trend of the future relational governance.