Research withprovenance.
Research is the research arm of Dynaxity. It shows origin, evidence and the connection to other research. One pattern runs through it: binary models are replaced by continuous, probabilistic ones.
Where the model comes from
The term Dynaxity, the simultaneous increase in dynamics and complexity, was coined by Heijo Rieckmann, Professor of Organisation, Personnel and Management at the University of Klagenfurt. He published it in 1992 in “Dynaxibility, oder wie ›systemisches‹ Management in der Praxis funktionieren kann” (in: K. Henning, B. Harendt [Hrsg.], Methodik und Praxis der Komplexitätsbewältigung, Duncker & Humblot). Patrick Hamilton's book Dynaxity (Springer, 2006) builds on it.
It began with two questions: how fast is this changing? And how tangled is it? A new dimension is added only when reality refuses to fit into the old ones.
No extension was invented at a desk. Each was forced by a case the existing model could not grasp. Behind it stands a series of works: Dynaxity (Springer, 2006), Brain Research for Leadership Practice (2011), NAVIGATE (2018) and The Operating Ontology (2026).
Question, method, result
The axes of Research are the question (dynamics, complexity, ontology), the method (theory, empirical, model) and the result (paper, dataset, instrument).
A cell is occupied when it holds a dated document. Empty cells stay empty; nothing is invented to fill them.
- xQuestionDynamics·Complexity·Ontology
- yMethodTheory·Empirical·Model
- zResultPaper·Dataset·Instrument
A register of provenance
Documents appear here in a fixed form, dated and protected against later change, modelled on public registers. This makes it possible to show when something was published.
The register includes outward links to other research institutions. Every text appears in two versions: academically grounded and generally understandable.