Corporate & Business Strategy Review / Volume 2, Issue 1, 2021 18 AGE AND PRIOR WORKING EXPERIENCE EFFECT ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION Alexandros G. Sahinidis * , Panagiota I. Xanthopoulou ** , Panagiotis A. Tsaknis ** , Evangelos E. Vassiliou *** * Corresponding author, University of West Attica, Greece Contact details: University of West Attica, 250 Petrou Ralli and Thivon, Egaleo 12243, Athens, Greece ** University of West Attica, Greece *** University of the Aegean, Greece Abstract How to cite this paper: Sahinidis, A. G., Xanthopoulou, P. I., Tsaknis, P. A., & Vassiliou, E. E. (2021). Age and prior working experience effect on entrepreneurial intention. Corporate & Business Strategy Review, 2(1), 18-26. https://doi.org/10.22495/cbsrv2i1art2 Copyright © 2021 The Authors This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4 .0/ Received: 09.01.2021 Accepted: 22.03.2021 JEL Classification: L26, M13 DOI: 10.22495/cbsrv2i1art2 The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that determine entrepreneurial intention and examine the effects of age and prior working experience on the formation of entrepreneurial intention. A questionnaire-based survey was employed for the data collection. A total of 171 university students from a Business School in Greece participated in the survey. The findings of our research showed that perceived behavioral control and attitude are significantly influencing entrepreneurial intention. Additionally, our analysis indicates that age and prior working experience affect entrepreneurial intention. The contribution of this study concerns the illumination of the scarcely addressed in the literature relationship between age and work experience with entrepreneurial intention. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Intention, Age, Work Experience, Theory of Planned Behavior Authors’ individual contributions: Conceptualization — A.G.S.; Methodology — P.A.T.; Writing — P.I.X.; Visualization — E.E.V. Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. 1. INTRODUCTION The study of the factors that determine an individual’s intention to be self-employed has been the subject of research since the early 1990s (Carr & Sequeira, 2007; Kolvereid, 1996; Krueger & Carsrud, 1993). It is argued that in order to predict entrepreneurial behavior, we must first understand how entrepreneurial intention (EI) is formed, as this is considered the first step in the process of starting a business. Interestingly, the majority of previous research on business formation intention focuses on predicting behavior based on individual traits, although most entrepreneurs are neither students nor young graduates (Kautonen, Luoto, & Tornikoski, 2010). Despite previous research, little information is available on drivers of entrepreneurial behavior at different ages and with previous work experience, while some studies present contradictory results (Miralles, Giones, & Riverola, 2016; Neneh, 2014). Therefore, there is a gap in the literature that requires further investigation on how individual characteristics such as age and previous work experience affect the formation of EI. In the following sections, we discuss the literature on entrepreneurial intention (EI), the theory of planned behavior (TPB), the age and work experience effect on EI in Section 2; the methodology used in this study in Section 3. This is followed by the results presenting the statistical analyses used in this study in Section 4. Finally, the discussion of the findings is presented in Section 5 and the conclusion is drawn in Section 6.