ABSTRACT
Management is an idea-handling, not a materials-handling, function, and as such it is somewhat intangible. The importance of a city as a management center has so far been confined to its importance as a center of industrial management, but this is inadequate, for it does not take into account other business activities. Many of the important industrial cities are also important non-industrial centers, but Hartford, Milwaukee, Houston, and Dallas, as measured by assets, are obviously more important as financial centers than as industrial centers. Intuitively, and probably by common assumption, the relative importance of a city as a business-management center is considered to have a more or less positive linear relation to the size of its population. In the past twenty years, the electronic computer has grown from a curiosity to a much-used tool of management. The chapter presents the total number of managers and clerks for the largest urbanized areas of the United States against the populations.
