Objective: The objective of the article is to explore how corporate growth in business studies is explained and to present the typology of growth models of small businesses. Research Design & Methods: This conceptual article relies on literature review and desk research. The article elaborates on available literature via a critical literature review methodology. Findings: A detailed literature query, conducted for the purposes of this article, identified eight approaches to modelling corporate growth (growth of small businesses). Those are stochastic approach, stages models, evolutionary approach, resource-based view, learning approach, managerial approach, econophysical approach, and sustainable models. Implications & Recommendations: The literature query and the process of logical reasoning based on the collected material allows to outline several directions of further research. Firstly, future studies should conduct a detailed bibliometric analysis with a map of connections that will allow a classification of research areas. Secondly, scholars should prepare a more integrated approach towards the growth of small businesses, which will include more factors rooted in the entrepreneurship theory. Contribution & Value Added: The article structures scientific knowledge on the typology of modelling corporate growth in business studies. This article paid special attention to modelling of corporate growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, which in the case of firms of this size class run differently than in the case of large companies and international corporations, for which various models are mainly created. Article type: conceptual article

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小型企业增长模型的类型学：批判性文献综述

目标：本文的目的是探索如何解释商业研究中的企业增长，并展示小企业增长模型的类型。研究设计和方法：这篇概念性文章依赖于文献综述和案头研究。本文通过批判性文献审查方法详细阐述了可用文献。调查结果：针对本文进行的详细文献查询确定了八种对企业增长（小型企业的增长）建模的方法。这些是随机方法、阶段模型、进化方法、基于资源的观点、学习方法、管理方法、经济物理方法和可持续模型。影响和建议：文献查询和基于收集材料的逻辑推理过程可以勾勒出进一步研究的几个方向。首先，未来的研究应该使用连接图进行详细的文献计量分析，以便对研究领域进行分类。其次，学者们应该为小企业的成长准备一个更加综合的方法，其中将包含更多植根于创业理论的因素。贡献和附加值：本文构建了有关商业研究中企业增长建模类型学的科学知识。本文特别关注中小企业的公司成长模型，在这种规模的公司中，与大公司和国际公司的情况不同，主要为其创建各种模型。文章类型：概念文章