Production Perspectives: Economic, Functional, and Technical

Production Perspectives

The production and distribution of goods and services involve multiple tasks and functions, requiring an organizational instrument to coordinate the whole process. This is the company's role. There are several perspectives on the production of these services.

Economic Overview

Production is a process that meets families' needs by developing products based on factors of production (natural resources, labor, capital) employed by companies.

Functional-Utilitarian Perspective

Production practices add value to things by making them more useful than they were before. For example, in manufacturing a shirt, the components are fabric and yarn. Converting these materials into a shirt requires productive activity, utilizing a specific process, manpower, and machinery.

Technical Perspective

Production combines resources with productive labor, feedstocks, machines, energy, or technical direction, applying a particular technology to obtain a product. For example, tuna canning. There are two methods: traditional, applying trolling or dragging with a ship, and fishing with nets, where a main line is tied to many branches with baited hooks, left at sea, and marked with buoys.

Technology's Role

Companies allocate resources to improve manufacturing methods. This investment in research and development (R&D) is the architect of their technology, resulting in new production processes and the creation of new products. The three definitions of a product describe the same concept from different angles: economic, functional-utilitarian, and technical.

3rd Half Century Poets

In the late fifties, a new generation of poets emerged, focusing on social poetry principles.

• Explicit commitment in ideological exchange disappears, and the importance of the autobiographical component returns, attempting to integrate individual experience into the historical circle.
• Themes include:
  • Love and eroticism
  • The passage of time and the evocation of childhood or adolescence
  • The social reality of Spain, often as a background against which personal experiences stand out
• Language is conversational and intimate, in contrast to the declamatory style of social poets.

Dede Theater 1936

Mihura and the Comedy of Folly

The foundational work of the comedy of the absurd is Three Top Hats by Miguel Mihura. A man working in a circus is leaving the night before his wedding. He must decide whether to choose security and not marry or freedom and continue with the circus. Some humor effects in this work are useless clutter and play with language, and the subversion of cliches.