Systemic Principles in the Study of Family Businesses

This article presents a systems perspective on administration and psychology in the study of family owned companies. The principles of general systems theory and basic humanistic assumptions of business administration and the theoretical concepts of organizational and work psychology have been addressed. These analyses have been organized into a systematic interdisciplinary methodology to evaluate the environment of family companies and the realities of families involved in the management function. It is clearly evident that there is a pressing need to study viable ways for a joint performance evaluation between psychology and administrative functions that consider the interaction and interdependence between these disciplines