“…This article complements earlier applications of the tetralemma (Jayatilleke, 1967; Varga von Kibéd, 2006; Sparrer, 2007; Kleve, 2011; 2019, von Schlippe and Schweitzer, 2015; Roth, 2017a, b; Schweitzer and Drews, 2018)—a figure of thought of ancient Indian logic for solving dilemmas—to dilemmas in a broader organizational context, and thus aims to develop a conceptual framework that facilitates the selective and agile navigation of family-business tensions without dissolving them or blurring their boundaries. The article, therefore, combines the tetralemma approach with key elements of systems theory (Luhmann, 1995; 2012, 2018) to understand and show how the fundamentally different logics and operational modes of families and businesses may co-exist and be managed such that they appear as functional for both systems.…”