Wetzel, RalfDievernich, Frank2017-12-022017-12-02201410.13109/kont.2014.45.2.126http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/5440As different as organizations and families might appear, both social systems seem to amply borrow coping tactics from each other. Not only organizations have copied patterns of informality and all-channel-communication from families. Reversely, families seem to have learned formalisms and have developed rather rational tools classically known from organizations. Challenging Eva Illouz hypothesis of increasing economization of intimacy, we throw a more systems theoretical light onto the modern relations between families and organizations including their spill-overs. We investigate this modern »couple« by means of the theatre drama »The god of carnage« by Yasmina Reza, which relentlessly unveils the modern conditions, boundaries and paradoxes of family life in modern conditions.enPeople Management & LeadershipKontext. Zeitschrift für Systemische Therapie und Familientherapie1444951369646707