The tacit dimensions of collaborative network traffic

Abstract

We have visualised informal internal and external networks of practicing forensic scientists and now set out to understand how such collaborative networks function. We propose that tacit knowledge acquired through relational mechanisms of social interaction is a major contributor to the functioning of collaborative networks. In our case study on a forensic science community, we examine empirically such tacit knowledge transfer flows at an inter- and intra-organisational collaborative level. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.